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TO THE PLANNING COMMISSION MEETING FOR SEPTEMBER 28TH, 7:00 PM.AT THIS MOMENT, WE'D LIKE TO SAY A MOMENT OF PRAYER OR MEDITATION FOLLOWED BY THE PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE.
UH, LET YOU LEAD JUST A LITTLE BIT LED BY COMMISSIONER LEWIS CHAIR, VICE CHAIR.
UH, MADAM CHAIR AND COMMISSIONERS.
COMMISSIONER WILLIAMS. PRESENT, UH, COMMISSIONER GUTIERREZ, UH, VICE CHAIR LEWIS CHAIR, SARAH HERE
[1. Regular meeting, August 24, 2021 Special meeting, September 8, 2021]
TONIGHT.WE HAVE MINUTES FROM THE REGULAR MEETING ON AUGUST 24TH, 2021.
AND THE SPECIAL MEETING ON SEPTEMBER 8TH, 2021.
DOES ANYONE HAVE ANY CHANGES TO THE MINUTES ON AUGUST 24TH OR THE SPECIAL MEETING ON SEPTEMBER 8TH, 2021, HEARING NONE THE MINUTES OF AUGUST 24TH, 2021 AND SEPTEMBER 8TH, 2021, OUR APPROVED AND SUBMITTED, UM, ORAL COMMUNICATIONS.
THIS IS A TIME WHEN ANY MEMBER OF THE PUBLIC MAKES MAY SPEAK TO THE COMMISSION ON ANY MATTER WITHIN THE SCOPE OF DUTIES, ASSIGNED TO THE COMMISSION, RELATING TO THE NON AGENDIZED OR CONSENT CALENDAR ITEMS. OTHER MATTERS INCLUDED IN THIS AGENDA MAY BE ADDRESSED WHEN THAT ITEM IS UNDER CONSIDERATION FOR ALL ORAL COMMUNICATIONS, THE CHAIRPERSON MAY IMPOSE REASONABLE LIMITATIONS ON PUBLIC COMMENTS TO ASSURE AN ORDERLY AND TIMELY MEETING THE RALPH M. BROWN ACT LIMITS THE PLANNING COMMISSION AND STAFF'S ABILITY TO RESPOND TO PUBLIC COMMENTS AT THIS MEETING.
THAT'S YOUR COMMENTS MAY BE AGENDIZED FOR A FUTURE MEETING OR REFER TO STAFF.
THE COMMISSION MAY ASK FOR CLARIFICATION IF DESIRED AT THIS TIME.
DOES ANYONE HAVE ANYTHING TO SPEAK ON A NON AGENDIZED AUTUMN ITEM THIS EVENING? SO TONIGHT WE HAVE THREE PUBLIC HEARINGS
[3. CONDITIONAL USE PERMIT NO. 21-05 CATEGORICAL EXEMPTION APPLICANT: Chadi Zein for Jasmine's Cafe LOCATION: 1240 Lakes Drive #C REQUEST: The project is for a Conditional Use Permit to allow for the "on-sale" service of beer and wine (Type 41 Alcohol License) and to allow the use of hookah in conjunction with the operations of a restaurant.]
AND ONE NON-HEARING ITEM.WE'LL BE HEARING ITEM NUMBER THREE, FIRST ITEM NUMBER SECOND.
SECOND PAULINA WHO WILL BE, UH, WHO WILL REPRESENT THE FIRST STAFF REPORT.
UM, JOANNE BURNS OR PLANNING MANAGER WILL BE PRESENTING THE STAFF REPORT.
GOOD EVENING, HONORABLE CHAIR MEMBERS OF THE PLANNING COMMISSION.
ALSO MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC, THEIR REQUEST IS FOR A CONDITIONAL
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USE PERMIT TO ALLOW YOUR IN WINE SALES OR ONSITE CONCEPTION AND A HOOKAH USE IN CONJUNCTION WITH A RESTAURANT.THE PROJECT SITE IS LOCATED WITHIN THE NEIGHBORHOOD HIGH DENSITY RESIDENTIAL ZONE IN THE DOWNTOWN FINDING CODE.
THE SUBJECT TENANT SPACE WAS PREVIOUSLY A RESTAURANT WITHIN THE LAKE CENTER.
IT WILL INCORPORATE INTERIOR REMODELING TO TAKE OVER THE SPACE AS A NEW RESTAURANT CALLED JASMINE'S CAFE.
JASMINE'S CAFE WILL BE MANDATORY SERVE MID THREE INDIAN FOOD LAKES.
ENTERTAINMENT CENTER IS COMPRISED OF A MOVIE THEATER RESTAURANTS AND A PARKING LOT WITH A PARKING STRUCTURE ACROSS THE LAKES ENTERTAINMENT CENTER ALONG GLENDORA AVENUE IS A MIXTURE OF RESTAURANTS AND ALSO RETAIL AND OFFICE SPACE.
THIS THERE, THE JASMINE'S CAFE'S BUSINESS OPERATION PLAN, THE HOURS OF OPERATION PROPOSED IS DAILY FROM 9:00 AM TO 2:00 AM.
THEY WILL HAVE TWO EIGHT EMPLOYEES TOTAL OPERATING WITH TWO COOKS, ONE DISHWASHER, THREE SERVERS IN ONE HOOKAH SERVER.
YOUR IS THE FLOOR PLAN OR THE, OR THE TENANT'S SPACE.
WE'LL STRICTLY BE SERVED IN THE OUTDOOR PATIO AREA.
THE RESTAURANT, THE RESTAURANT WILL HAVE A TOTAL OF 21 TABLES EACH WITH FOUR SEATS.
THE HOOKAH, THE HOOKAH, THE AREA THAT WILL BE USED FOR HOOKAH LOUNGE WITHIN, WITHIN THE OUTDOOR PATIO AREA IS APPROXIMATELY 25 FEET.
AND IT'S REQUIRED TO BE 25 FEET FROM ANY ENTRANCE OR EXITS TO ANY BUILDINGS.
THE KITCHEN INSTALL, THE KITCHEN STORAGE ROOM AND RESTROOMS ARE LOCATED TOWARDS THE REAR OF THE RESTAURANT.
UM, I JUST, I WOULD LIKE TO POINT OUT THAT THIS EVER SINCE THE DOWNTOWN PLAN WAS A MINT WAS ADOPTED BY THE CITY COUNCIL IN 2016.
THIS IS THE FIRST APPLICATION THAT THE CITY HAS RECEIVED AND IS PROCESSING FOR HOOKAH USE.
USE IS ONLY ALLOWED IN, UM, IN THE CITY OF WEST COVINA IN THE DOWNTOWN FINDING CODE AREA, AND IT'S NOT ALLOWED OUTSIDE OF THE DOWNTOWN PLAN AND CODE AREA.
HAS INCORPORATED ADDITIONAL OPERATING CONDITIONS.
IN ADDITION TO THE CITY STANDARDS, STANDARD CONDITIONS OF APPROVAL IN THE DRAFT RESOLUTION.
UM, ONE BEING, AS I MENTIONED EARLIER, REQUIRING 25 FEET FROM ANY BUILDING ENTRANCE, IT WOULD BE LIMITED TO CUSTOMERS ORDERING FOODS OR DRINKS YOU'RE IN WINE.
AND WHO IS ACCESSORY TO THE FULL SERVICE RESTAURANT STAFF WOULD LIKE TO ADD TWO ADDITIONAL CONDITIONS OF APPROVAL TO THE RESOLUTION.
IF THE PLANNING COMMISSION APPROVES THIS ITEM TONIGHT, UM, ONE CLARIFYING THAT CANNABIS USE IS NOT ALLOWED, UM, AND THE BUSINESSES ARE NOT ALLOWED IN THE CITY.
SO IT WOULD JUST BE A CONDITION OF APPROVAL CLARIFYING THAT, UM, CANNABIS PRODUCTS CANNOT BE SMOKED IN BUKA AND ALSO POINTING OUT THAT EA APPLICANTS WOULD HAVE TO, TO ALL HEALTH DEPARTMENT REGULATIONS, YOUR, OUR EXISTING SITE PHOTOGRAPHS, THE AREA THAT I'M POINT IN WINNING, UM, WITH THE RED ARROW IS THE SUBJECT TENANT SPACE.
UM, THIS YELLOW I'M COLORED AND THEN SPACE BUILDING RIGHT ALONG HERE.
AND THE OUTDOOR PATIO AREA IS THE AREA THAT IS ENCLOSED BY THE RAILING.
THERE IS, UH, RESTAURANTS ALONG THE SIDE, THERE ARE ACROSS THE WALKWAY THAT HAVE THAT, THAT CURRENTLY HAVE OUTDOOR DINING.
THOSE RESTAURANTS ARE, OH, THE OUTDOOR DINING AREA IS APPROXIMATELY 35 FEET FROM WHERE THE RAIL THIS RAILING IS.
SO IT WOULD COMPLY WITH ALL HEALTH DEPARTMENT STANDARDS REGARDING BEING 25 FEET AWAY FROM, FROM OTHER SMOKING BEING 25 FEET AWAY FROM
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OTHER RESTAURANTS WITH OUTDOOR DINING STAFF IS ABLE TO SUPPORT, UM, AND MAKE ALL THE FINDINGS WITH THIS STAFF IS RECOMMENDING THAT THE PLANNING COMMISSION APPROVE THE CONDITIONAL USE PERMIT AT ADOPT RESOLUTION NUMBER 21 0 9 9.IF THE PLANNING COMMISSION HAS ANY QUESTIONS I AM AVAILABLE TO ANSWER, THE APPLICANTS IS ALSO HERE TODAY.
THANK YOU FOR THE STAFF REPORT.
DOES THE PLANNING COMMISSION HAVE ANY QUESTIONS FOR STAFF EMISSION OR GUTIERREZ? YES.
UM, THE PATIO WILL BE USED FOR, UH, HOOKAH AS WELL.
AND IS THERE AN AGE LIMIT AND WHO COULD, UH, SMOKE HOOKAH OR 21.
IT'S THE SAME AS SMOKING CIGARETTES.
AND THEN, UM, TO ACCESS, TO HAVE DINNER OR TO HAVE A FOOD THERE, HOW OLD DO YOU HAVE TO BE? THERE IS NO, THERE'S NO AGE LIMITS.
THERE'S NO AGE LIMITATION TO EAT IN THE RESTAURANT.
COMMISSIONER WILLIAMS. NO COMMENTS.
WE'RE JUST GOING TO ASK REGARDING, UM, REGARDING OUTDOOR PATIOS WHERE SMOKING IS ALLOWED IN THE CITY OF LIMITS.
DO WE HAVE ANYTHING LIKE THAT RIGHT NOW? NOT IN THE CITY, NOT IN THE CITY'S MUNICIPAL.
SO THIS WOULD BE THE, THIS WOULD BE THE ONE EXCEPTION IN THE ENTIRE CITY FOR THAT.
YES, I HAVE NO FURTHER QUESTION.
SO I MEAN, I'M A LITTLE BIT FAMILIAR WITH HOOKAH, BUT NOT SO I KNOW THAT THERE ARE, WHAT IS IT TOBACCO THAT IS BEING SMOKED OR I BELIEVE IT WAS FRUITS OR I'M NOT, IF YOU CAN FAMILIARIZE US WITH WHAT EXACTLY.
I DON'T KNOW IF ANYONE ELSE HERE IS FAMILIAR WITH IT.
THE APPLICANTS WOULD BE ABLE TO ANSWER THAT QUESTION AND DESCRIBE THE FEES OF HOOKAH.
WHAT ELSE? THE APPLICANT, UM, NOW WE'LL HEAR SOME TESTIMONY FROM THE APPLICANT IF YOU'D LIKE TO COME FORWARD.
MY NAME IS SHETTY HOBBY, THE OWNER OF JASMINE CAFE.
CURRENTLY I HAVE A JASMINE CAFE IN POMONA TO RESTAURANT, AND THAT WILL BE SECOND LOCATION.
UH, TO ANSWER YOUR QUESTION ABOUT THE TOBACCO, IT'S A FLAVOR TOBACCO IT'S ACTUALLY PUT IN A BALL AND THAT SAID THERE'S NO, ANY OTHER DRUGS OR ANYTHING JUST, YOU HAVE TO BE 21 TO SMOKE IT.
AND THE OTHER QUESTION, SO WE'LL START WITH COMMISSIONER GUTIERREZ.
DO YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS FOR HIM, MR. WILLIAMS QUESTIONS? NO QUESTIONS.
IS THERE ANYTHING THAT YOU WOULD LIKE TO ADD IN? I MEAN, BY US ADDING THE HOOKAH AND THE BEER AND WINE WILL INCREASE OUR SALES AND WILL HELP US, WE'LL HELP THAT LITTLE BIT.
THE ECONOMY WAS IT FOR US AND THE OTHER PEOPLE LIKE THE PIZZA PLACE, THE ICE CREAM PLACE AND BRING MORE TRAFFIC TO THE SHOPPING CENTER BY US MAKING THAT.
AND, UH, INSTEAD, AND THERE'S HOOKAH AND OTHER CITIES LIKE GLENDORA POMONA.
AND I DON'T SEE WHY PEOPLE NEED TO, TO DRIVE FROM WEST COVINA TO OTHER CITY AND MAKE IT CONVENIENT FOR THEM.
SO THAT'S WHAT WE'RE TRYING TO DO RIGHT NOW.
SO AT THIS TIME WE WILL BE OPENING PUBLIC HEARING AND WE'LL BE HEARING FOR THOSE FROM THOSE IN FAVOR OF THE PROJECT.
WE JUST HEARD FROM, CORRECT? YES.
NUMBER TWO, UH, TWO FOR, OH, I'M SORRY.
IT'S I DON'T THINK WE HAVE ANY THAT ARE HERE TO SPEAK OR ANY ANYONE HERE TO SPEAK, UM, AGAINST THE PRO THE, THE, UM, THE HOOKAH LOUNGE.
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SO THIS TIME WE'LL TO TAKE, DISCUSS IT AMONG THE COMMISSION.SO IT IS, DOES ANYONE HAVE ANY, ANY ADDITIONAL QUESTIONS ON THIS OR, YEAH, ONE QUESTION.
UM, WHAT KIND OF, UH, LET ME FOR THE APPLICANT, BUT WHAT KIND OF FOOD WILL BE SERVED AT THE, AT THE RESTAURANT IT'S RAINING FOOD.
WOULD THAT BE FOR THE MEDITERRANEAN FOOD? OKAY.
SO IT'D BE FULL ON DINNER, DISHES, NOT JUST APPETIZERS OR ANYTHING LIKE THAT.
IT'S GOING TO BE A FULL SERVICE RESTAURANT.
I BELIEVE THAT IS REQUIRED IN ORDER TO GET THE PERMIT FOR THE WINE AND BEER.
UM, IS THERE ANY, UH, LIGHTING, LIGHTING REQUIREMENTS AND, AND HOW DARK THE PLACE COULD BE? CAUSE I KNOW LIKE IN ANAHEIM THEY HAVE LIGHTING RESTRICTIONS TO MAKE SURE IT DOESN'T TURN INTO KIND OF LIKE A NIGHTCLUB BECAUSE OF ALCOHOL AND EVERYTHING BEING SERVED THERE.
THE CITY, THE CITY DOES NOT HAVE ANY LIGHTING RESTRICTIONS BEYOND THAT.
THAT'S REQUIRED BY THE BUILDING CODE.
WHOEVER AT THE PLANNING COMMISSION WOULD LIKE TO INCORPORATE CONDITIONS OF APPROVAL TO ADDRESS ANY LIGHTING CONCERNS, THEN YOU WERE WELCOME TO DO SO.
BECAUSE I KNOW THE CITY OF ANAHEIM, SOMETIMES THEY PUT A DIFFERENT, DIFFERENT THINGS IN A CONDITIONAL USE PERMIT THAT SAYS IT CAN BE TOO DARK TOO, TO PREVENT, TO PREVENT IT FROM TURNING INTO LIKE A NIGHTCLUB OR SOMETHING.
AND THEN MY LAST QUESTION WILL BE, IS THERE, WILL THERE BE ANY MUSIC, UH, OR LIVE MUSIC OR MUSIC BLAINE OR SO FORTH? THE APPLICATION DOES NOT INCLUDE ANY LIGHTENS.
IT REQUIRES A SEPARATE, UM, ENTITLEMENT.
SO NO MUSIC AT ALL WILL BE ALLOWED.
UM, THEY CAN PLAY THE RADIO, BUT NO LIVE ENTERTAINMENT.
WELL, THIS SEEMS PRETTY SIMPLE.
AND DO YOU HAVE ANYONE LIKE TO MOTION I'LL MOTION TO APPROVE YOU HAVE A SECOND.
I'LL SECOND THAT I HAVE AN EMOTION BY
UH, COMMISSIONER WILLIAMS, UH, UH, COMMISSIONER GUTIERREZ, UPSTATE, UH, COMMISSIONER HANG I, UH, VICE CHAIR, LEWIS AND CHAIR.
ON THIS MATTER WILL BE TAKEN AT THE PUBLIC HEARING BEFORE THE CITY COUNCIL ON A DATE TO BE DETERMINED.
[2. MITIGATED NEGATIVE DECLARATION OF ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT GENERAL PLAN AMENDMENT NO. 20-03 ZONE CHANGE NO. 20-04 PRECISE PLAN NO. 20-48 TREE REMOVAL PERMIT NO. 21-12 TENTATIVE PARCEL MAP NO. 83444 DEVELOPMENT AGREEMENT NO. 21-01 APPLICANT: Scott Murray, Greenlaw Partners LOCATION: 1211 E. Badillo Street REQUEST: The applicant is requesting approval of a precise plan to repurpose an existing building and parking lot for use as an Amazon Delivery Station. The project includes a general plan amendment to change the land use designation from Civic: Public Institution to Industrial, a zone change to change the land use designation from SP-11: Faith Community Church to Manufacturing (M-1), a parcel map to combine two existing lots, a tree removal permit to remove significant trees on-site, and a Development Agreement.]
ALINA WHO WILL PRESENT THE NEXT ITEM.UM, JOYCE, UH, PARKER FOR LINSKY.
OUR PLANNING CONSULTANT WILL PRESENT THE STAFF REPORT.
UH, TERRIBLE SARAH MEMBERS OF THE PLANNING COMMISSION.
I AM, UM, ASSISTING THE CITY ON THIS PROJECT.
MY NAME IS JOYCE PARKER, BASEL AND SKI.
THE ITEM BEFORE YOU IS, UH, CONSIDERATION OF AN AMAZON PARCEL DELIVERY STATION.
AND THERE ARE, UM, SEVERAL ENTITLEMENTS REQUESTED FOR THE PROJECT.
UM, ONE IS A GENERAL PLAN AMENDMENT, A ZONE CHANGE, A PRECISE PLAN, A TREE TREE REMOVAL PERMIT, A TENTATIVE PARCEL MAP AND A DEVELOPMENT AGREEMENT AND ACCOMPANYING THE, ALL OF THOSE ENTITLEMENTS
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IS A MITIGATED NEG DEC THAT WAS PREPARED FOR THE PROJECT LOCATION.UM, THE AERIAL SHOWS THE LOCATION.
IT IS, UH, CURRENTLY ADDRESS AS 1211 EAST BADILLO STREET, AS PART OF THE APPLICATION, THE APPLICANT WISHES TO CHANGE THE ADDRESS TO 1200, UH, EAST SAN BERNARDINO ROAD.
THE ARIEL SHOWS THE SURROUNDING LAND USES, UH, DIRECTLY TO THE NORTH.
THERE ARE RESIDENTIAL UNITS IN THE CITY OF COVINA TO THE WEST ARE COMMERCIAL AND INDUSTRIAL USES IN THE CITY OF COVINA TO THE SOUTH, ACROSS FROM
ALSO IN THE CITY OF WEST COVINA, THE TWO PHOTOS SHOW THE EXISTING, UM, UH, ELEVATIONS AS IT'S BEING USED BY FAITH COMMUNITY CHURCH, OR WAS BEING USED BY FAITH COMMUNITY CHURCH.
THE, UM, THE PARCEL IS CURRENTLY, OR ACTUALLY I THINK THE, UM, FAITH COMMUNITY CHURCH HAS, HAS VACATED THE PARCEL ABOUT WHAT'S CURRENTLY USED FOR BY FAITH COMMUNITY CHURCH.
AND THE PROPOSAL IS TO REPURPOSE THE EXISTING BUILDING.
THE EXISTING BUILDING IS A 177, 1,440 SQUARE FEET IN SIZE.
AND SO THE, UH, DELIVERY STATION WILL UTILIZE THAT BUILDING AS WELL AS THE ADJACENT PARKING LOT IN THE PARKING LOT.
THERE ARE 811 PARKING SPACES, 185 PASSENGER VEHICLES AND 626 DELIVERY VANS.
A PROPOSAL INCLUDES NEW LIGHTING STANDARDS, UH, THROUGHOUT THE PARKING LOT.
UM, THEY ARE PROPOSED AT 25 FEET IN HEIGHT AND, UH, ALONG ALL OF THE PROPERTY LINES, THE FOOT CANDLE, UH, THEY ALL HAVE, UH, WHAT'S CALLED HOUSE SHIELDS, WHICH PREVENTS THE LIGHT FROM PROJECTING BACK ONTO THE ADJACENT PROPERTY AND, UM, CONSISTENT WITH THE CITY'S CODE, THE FOOT CANDLES AT THE LARK ELLEN, UM, PROPERTY LINE LOCK LARK ELLEN VILLAGE PROPERTY LINE WOULD BE 0.2 FOOT CANDLE, OR I'M SORRY, 0.5 FOOT CANDLES.
AND THAT IS WHAT IS REQUIRED BY CODE ADJACENT TO RESIDENTIAL USES.
ALSO, UM, THE CODE REQUIRES A SIX FOOT MINIMUM LANDSCAPE PLANNER, UH, ADJACENT TO RESIDENTIAL USES.
AND THERE IS AN EXISTING ONE OUT THERE THAT WILL REMAIN.
THERE IS SOME, UH, TALL LANDSCAPING, UH, THAT, UM, IS MAINLY ON THE LARK ELLEN VILLAGE PROPERTY, BUT SOME ARE ON THIS PROPERTY AS WELL.
AND THE APPLICANT IS ALSO PROPOSING TO ADD ADDITIONAL SCREEN LANDSCAPING TO FILL IN ANY GAPS, UH, THAT EXIST.
THE, UH, THERE WILL BE 230, UH, TREES THAT INCLUDES BOTH THE EXISTING ONES, THE NEW TREES, THE PROPOSAL IS TO REMOVE ALL OF THE HIGH WATER TREES LIKE THE PALM TREES AND, AND, UM, REPLACE THOSE WITH LOW WATER TREES IN TERMS OF FENCING AND WALLS.
THERE IS AN EXISTING, UH, WALL ON THE EAST PROPERTY LINE, UM, UH, BUDDING, UH, LARK, ELLEN, UH, VILLAGE.
AND OTHER THAN THAT, THE APPLICANT IS NOT PROPOSING TO, UH, FENCE THE EXTERIOR OF THE PROPERTY.
THE ONLY FENCING WOULD BE, UH, AROUND THE EMPLOYEE PARKING LOT, WHICH THIS IS THIS AREA DIRECTLY EAST NOT SHOWING UP.
SO, UM, SO I STRICTLY EAST, THIS IS THE EMPLOYEE PARKING LOT, SO IT WILL BE FENCED.
AND THEN, UH, THERE WILL BE, UH, TWO 12 FOOT HIGH WALLS.
UH, THERE'LL BE SCREEN SOUND WALLS ADJACENT TO THE LOADING DOCK AREAS.
AND THAT WOULD BE IN THIS AREA HERE, UM, BASING BY DEAL AND THEN A SMALLER WALL, UM, TO THE NORTH SAN BERNARDINO.
IN TERMS OF HOW THE FACILITY WILL BE OPERATED, IT IS A PARCEL DELIVERY STATION THAT WILL BE OPERATED, UH, 24 HOURS, SEVEN DAYS A WEEK.
THERE ARE THREE TYPES OF EMPLOYEES.
THERE ARE AMAZON EMPLOYEES, AND THOSE ARE THE ONES THAT WILL BE, UH, PARKING IN THIS PARKING LOT, THE EMPLOYEE PARKING LOT.
THESE ARE THE EMPLOYEES THAT WILL SORT THE PACKAGES AT NIGHT, UH, GENERALLY, UM, AND GET THEM READY TO BE LOADED INTO THE VANS THE FOLLOWING DAY.
SO THESE EMPLOYEES ENTER OFF OF, UH,
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SAN BERNARDINO ROAD.UM, THEIR ONLY ENTRANCE INTO THEIR EMPLOYEE PARKING LOT IS RIGHT HERE WHERE MY CURSOR IS SHOWING.
SO, UM, THEY WOULD COME OFF OF SAN BERNARDINO ROAD AND THEN ENTER THE PARKING LOT.
THERE, THERE ARE ALSO GOING TO BE, UM, APPROXIMATELY 14, UH, UH, TRACTOR TRAILERS, UH, USED IN THE FACILITY.
THOSE WILL ARRIVE AND DEPART AT VARIOUS TIMES DURING THE DAY, UH, DURING THE DAY, UH, THERE WILL BE, UH, ABOUT FOUR THAT WILL COME DURING THE DAY.
AND MOST OF THE TRUCKS WILL COME IN THE EVENING, UH, AFTER SEVEN O'CLOCK AND MAKE THEIR ARRIVALS.
AND ALL OF THE TRUCKS WILL USE SAN BERNARDINO ROAD.
SAN BERNARDINO ROAD IS THE ONLY STREET THAT IS A DESIGNATED TRUCK ROUTE.
SO THEY HAVE TO COME OFF OF A ZETA AND, UM, APPROACH THE, UH, SITE FROM THE EAST.
AND, UM, THE AFTON IS PROPOSING TO INSTALL A NEW PARKING, I'M SORRY, A NEW TRAFFIC SIGNAL.
AND THAT TRAFFIC SIGNAL, UH, WOULD BE RIGHT AT CUTTER WAY.
AND SO THE EXISTING DRIVEWAY, UM, ON THE SITE WOULD BE MOVED TO THE EAST SO THAT IT ALIGNS WITH A CUTAWAY.
AND THEN IT WOULD ALSO, UH, THE PARKING, THE TRAFFIC LIGHT WOULD ALSO BE THERE.
AND WHEN THE TRAFFIC LIGHT GOES IN, THEY'LL ALSO ADD A, UH, LEFT TURN LANE.
WHEN THAT LEFT TURN LANE IS INSTALLED.
UM, THE PARKING SPACES THAT EXISTING PARKING SPACES THAT ARE IN FRONT OF THE FACILITY ON SAN BERNARDINO ROAD NEED TO BE REMOVED TO, UH, PROVIDE FOR THAT WIDENING OF, OF THE AREA, THE PURPLE AREAS SHOW WHERE THE VANS WILL BE PARKED.
AND, UH, THEY WILL, WHEN THE DRIVERS ARRIVE, THEY WILL ARRIVE, UH, STARTING AROUND NINE O'CLOCK ABOUT ARE, UH, SLIGHTLY EARLIER TO, UM, GET READY TO LEAVE FOR THE DAY.
AND THEY WOULD PARK OVER IN THE, UH, THIS, SORRY, I'M USING ONE, UH, SOUTH, UM, SOUTHWEST PARKING LOT AND THEN WALK OVER TO THEIR VANS AND THEN THEY WOULD GET IN THEIR VANS AND DRIVE OVER TO THIS AREA, UH, WHERE YOU, YOU SEE IT'S CALLED THE VAN STAGING AREA AND THEY WILL STAGE THERE UNTIL THEY'RE READY TO ENTER THE FACILITY.
THEY WILL ENTER THE FACILITY, UH, TO THE SOUTH.
THERE WILL BE NEW, UM, OVERHEAD DOORS AND THEY WILL ENTER THIS FACILITY AND THEY WILL BE LOADED INSIDE OF THE, UM, BUILDING THE, UH, VANS.
UH, THE DRIVERS OF THE VANS WILL APPROACH THE SITE, UH, FROM
UH, WHEN THE VANS LEAVE, THEY WILL BE INSIDE THE BUILDING AND THEY WILL BE LEAVING VIA THIS DEDICATED, UM, DRIVEWAY.
UM, IT'S A NEW DRIVEWAY AND, UH, THERE'LL BE ABLE TO TURN RIGHT OR LEFT ONTO SAN BERNARDINO ROAD.
AND, UM, THE KNICKS, A GROUP OF WORKERS, UM, THEY'RE NOT REALLY EMPLOYEES, BUT THEY'RE CALLED FLEX DRIVERS.
AND THESE ARE DRIVERS THAT, UM, DELIVER AMAZON PACKAGES IN THEIR OWN INDIVIDUAL, UH, VEHICLES.
THEY ARRIVE AFTER, UH, IN THE AFTERNOON AROUND FOUR 30.
AND THEY WILL BE THE ONLY, UH, UM, TRAFFIC THAT WILL, UM, EVOLVE, UH, SOME ACTIVITY DURING THE PEAK HOURS.
THEY CAN ALSO APPROACH THE SITE, UM, ON ANY OF THE DRIVEWAYS ON VIDEO OR, UH, EASTERLY MOST DRIVEWAY ON SAN BERNARDINO ROAD.
BUT WHEN THEY EXIT, AFTER THEY HAVE LOADED THEIR VEHICLES IN THE EXIT, THEY WOULD EXIT ON, UH, TO, UH, SAN BERNARDINO ROAD, UH, OUT OF THE EASTERN MOST DRIVEWAY.
THE, UM, THERE IS A PEAK SEASON AND THAT GENERALLY RUNS FROM THANKSGIVING TO CHRISTMAS, AND IT IS EXPECTED THAT THE NUMBER OF, UH, LONG HAUL TRUCKS OR TRAILER, A TRACTOR TRAILER TRUCKS WILL DOUBLE IN SIZE FROM 14 TO 28.
AND THAT THE SAME FOR THE DELIVERY VANS, THEY WILL, UH, DELIVERY, UH, DOUBLE INSIDE.
AND THEN THEY WOULD, UH, JUST HAVE, UM, ADD ADDITIONAL SHIFTS DURING THE DAY, UM, FOR DISTRIBUTION OF THE PACKAGES.
SEE, I THINK COVERED, LET'S GO BACK.
SO THIS, UM, ORANGE AREA SHOWS THE PATH OF THE TRUCKS THAT WILL BE ACCESSING THE SITE.
YOU COULD SEE THEY'RE COMING OFF OF SAN BERNARDINO ROAD ROAD, AND, AND I'M ENDING UP BACK HERE AT THE LOADING DOCK.
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AND THEN THE GREEN SHOWS THE PATH OF EXIT OF THE VANS AND THE FLEX DRIVERS.UM, THE GREEN AT, AT THIS PARTICULAR AREA DOWN HERE, UM, IS FLEX DRIVERS BECAUSE THE VAN DRIVERS WILL BE, UH, PICKING UP THEIR VEHICLES, WHICH ARE PARKED IN THE PARKING LOT.
AND THEN MOVING INTO THE BUILDING, SOME CONCEPTUAL RENDERINGS, UH, THIS RENDERING, UH, WILL GIVE YOU A VIEW OF THE EMPLOYEE PARKING LOT.
THIS IS THE EMPLOYEE PARKING LOT HERE, AND YOU CAN SEE OFF IN THE DISTANCE, THE, UH, TRUCKS, AND THEN THE ONE OF THE 12 FOOT HIGH WALLS YOU CAN'T SEE DIRECTLY, UH, HAVE A GOOD, UH, FRONT SHOT OF THIS, BUT THIS PAVED AREA HERE IS THE NEW ROAD IN WHICH THE VANS WILL EXIT ONTO SAN BERNARDINO ROAD.
THIS SLIDE IS FROM THE SOUTHWEST.
THIS IS FROM VIDEO, IT SHOWS, UH, IT HAS A GOOD REPRESENTATION OF THE LOADING DOCK AND THE 12 FOOT HIGH WALLS OVER HERE IN THIS AREA.
AND THIS ON THE SOUTH EAST PERSPECTIVE SHOWS WHERE THE VANS WILL BE.
UM, THIS IS A STAGING AREA FOR THE VANS AND, UH, THIS IS EAST OF THE PROPERTY.
ONCE THE VANS ARE CALLED INTO THE BUILDING, THEY WOULD ENTER, UH, ON THE SOUTH SIDE, UH, THROUGH THIS AREA WHERE THERE'LL BE NEW OVERHEAD DOORS.
UH, THEY WILL UTILIZE IN ADDITION TO THE PRECISE PLAN.
UM, THERE IS A TREE REMOVAL PERMIT TO REMOVE, UH, THREE SIGNIFICANT TREES.
THE CITY, UH, CONSIDERS A SIGNIFICANT TREE, UM, KNEE TREE, THAT'S OVER 12 INCHES.
UM, IF IT'S IN THE FRONT OR SIDE, UH, SETBACK.
AND SO THESE THREE FICUS TREES ARE IN THE FRONT SETBACK, AND THE REASON THEY NEED TO BE REMOVED IS THE, THE EXISTING DRIVEWAY HAS TO BE MOVED TO THE EAST TO ALIGN WITH CUTTER WAY.
THE THREE TREES, UH, THE VIEWS ARE SHOWN.
THOSE ARE THE SAME THREE TREES, UH, JUST A DIFFERENT VIEW.
ONE LOOKING EAST FROM SAN BERNARDINO ROAD AND ONE LOOKING WEST, THE TREES ARE 24 INCHES, 24 AND A HALF INCHES AND 29 AND A HALF INCHES.
THE ADDITIONAL REQUEST INCLUDES A GENERAL PLAN AMENDMENT.
AND THAT REQUEST IS TO CHANGE THE LAND USE DESIGNATION FROM CIVIC, PUBLIC, UH, INSTITUTIONAL, WHICH IS THE, UH, LAND USE DESIGNATION, UH, THAT WAS PLACED FOR THE FAITH COMMUNITY CHURCH.
AND THAT REQUEST IS TO CHANGE THAT TO INDUSTRIAL, TO ACCOMMODATE THE DELIVERY STATION.
THE ZONE CHANGE WOULD CHANGE, UH, THE CURRENT ZONING FROM SV OR SPECIFIC PLAN, UH, DASH 11, UH, FAITH COMMUNITY CHURCH TO MANUFACTURING OR M ONE.
THERE'S ALSO A TENTATIVE PARCEL MAP, UH, TO COMBINE TWO, UH, PARCELS OR TWO LOTS INTO ONE, UH, ON THE SITE TRAFFIC IMPACTS.
UM, WE DO HAVE THE CITY'S TRAFFIC, UH, CONSULTANT HERE, JENNA ROBBINS, UH, TO ANSWER ANY QUESTIONS.
AND THEN ALSO THE, THE, UH, SEQUEL, UM, EXPERT IS HERE WHO PREPARED THE MITIGATED NEG DEC.
SO THIS IS JUST A BROAD OVERVIEW, BUT THE PROJECT TRIP GENERATION IS, UH, 914 DAILY TRIPS.
UH, WHEN THE COUNTS WERE TAKEN, THE NEW COUNTS WERE TAKEN IN 2021.
THEY WERE COMPARED TO THE 2019 COUNTS BECAUSE OF, UH, THOSE COUNTS WERE PRE COVID.
AND SO, UM, THE CITY WANTED TO MAKE SURE THAT, UH, THEY WERE, THEY ACRO ACCURATELY REFLECTED THE COUNTS.
UM, MOST OF THE, BECAUSE MOST OF THE TRIPS ARE OUTSIDE OF THE TYPICAL PEAK HOUR, WHEN THE VANS, UH, START LEAVING THE FACILITY, UH, IT'S GENERALLY THEY'LL START LEAVING ABOUT 10 O'CLOCK.
AND SO THAT IS OUTSIDE OF THE RUSH HOUR, UM, UH, OUR PEAK HOUR, UM, AND THUS THERE WAS NO, UH, SIGNIFICANT TRAFFIC IMPACT, UH, IMPACTS FROM THE PROJECT.
THERE IS A DEVELOPMENT AGREEMENT, UM, AS PART OF THE, UM, APPLICATION, THE DEVELOPMENT AGREEMENT CALLS FOR THE APPLICANT, UH, TO, UH, PAY THE CITY A TOTAL OF 4 MILLION IN TOTAL SALES FACTS AS SALES TAX, WE'LL PAY IT OFF, PAID OVER, UH, SEVERAL, UM, PAYMENTS OVER A PERIOD OF TIME, BUT THE TOTAL WOULD BE $4 MILLION IS CONSIDERED A COMMUNITY BENEFIT PAYMENT, UH, SINCE THE FACILITY IS NOT A, UM, UH, WOULD NOT GENERATE SALES TAX IN ADDITION, BECAUSE THIS PROJECT DOES NOT, UM, HAVE A CONDITIONAL USE PERMIT.
UM, THE, UH, THE CONDITIONS RELATIVE
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TO THE USE ITSELF ARE BEING PLACED IN THE DEVELOPMENT AGREEMENT.AND THESE INCLUDE AN ANNUAL DRIVEWAY COUNT TO MONITOR THE NUMBER OF VEHICLES ENTERING AN EXIT AND EXITING THE SITE.
AND THAT IS TO ENSURE THAT, UM, IF THE FACILITY, UM, UH, GROWS IN ANY WAY THAT THEY WOULD, AND MORE TRUCKS ARE, ARE GENERATED OR MORE VANS ARE GENERATED, UM, THEY WOULD THEN BE REQUIRED TO COME BACK TO THE CITY AND AMEND THE DEVELOPMENT AGREEMENT.
AND THEN, UM, WE WOULD ALSO DO ADDITIONAL SEQUENCE ANALYSIS TO MAKE SURE THAT THE TRAFFIC IMPACTS AND THE OTHER NOISE OR OTHER IMPACTS LIKE NOISE WOULD REMAIN INSIGNIFICANT.
THEY, UM, THERE WOULD BE A 24 HOUR COMPLAINT HOTLINE THAT WOULD BE MAINTAINED BY AMAZON.
UH, THERE WOULD BE, UM, THERE WAS SOME CONCERN AS WE WENT THROUGH THE SECRET PROCESS ABOUT BACKUP ALARMS, BOTH THE VANS AND THE, UH, LONG HAUL TRUCKS OR THE TRACTOR TRAILER TRUCKS HAVE BACKUP ALARMS. AND SO THERE IS A CONDITION THAT SAYS THAT IF THE BACKUP ALARMS EXCEED THE OSHA REQUIREMENTS, THEN THEY WOULD, UM, AMAZON HAS AGREED TO WORK WITH THE CITY TO MAKE SOME OPERATIONAL CHANGES, TO MINIMIZE THE SOUND FROM THE BACKUP ALARMS. ANOTHER CONDITION IS THAT THE LEFT TURN POCKET ON SAN BERNARDINO ROAD, UH, WOULD NOT HAVE MORE THAN ONE TRUCK.
AND THAT IS TO KEEP THE TRUCKS FROM, UM, EITHER STOPPING IN, UH, SAN BERNARDINO ROAD IN ONE OF THE TRAVEL LANES OR, UH, PARTIALLY, UM, HANGING OUT OR TICKING IN THE, THE, UM, ONE OF THE TRAVEL LANES.
AND SO THERE'S A CONDITION THAT, UH, THE MAXIMUM, UM, TRAILER TRACTOR WAITING AT ANY ONE TIME IS ONE THEY EXPECT AMAZON DOES EXPECT THAT, UH, UH, GIVEN THEIR, UH, THE WAY THE TRUCKS WILL BE, UM, SPACED OUT AND ARRIVE.
UH, THEY, THEY DON'T ANTICIPATE ANY PROBLEM WITH THAT.
AND THERE WILL BE NO PUBLIC PICKUP OF PACKAGES A LOT AT THE SITE.
UH, ANOTHER CONDITION IS THAT ALL, UH, INDIVIDUAL CONSULTANTS, CONTRACTORS AND SELF-EMPLOYED DRIVERS MUST OBTAIN A WEST COVINA BUSINESS LICENSE.
AND THEN FINALLY THE APPLICANT HAS AGREED TO, UH, GOOD FAITH IN GOOD FAITH TO, UM, PURCHASE SUPPLIES AND SERVICES FROM THE CITY OF WEST COVINA, UH, LOCAL, UH, BUSINESSES BASED BUSINESSES AND, UH, REQUEST THAT THEIR CONSULTANTS AND CONTRACTORS TO PATRONIZE THE LOCAL BUSINESSES IN, IN, UH, IN THE COMMUNITY ENVIRONMENTAL REVIEW.
UH, THERE WAS, AS I MENTIONED, A MITIGATED NEG NEGATIVE DECLARATION PREPARED FOR THE PROJECT.
IT WAS CIRCULATED FOR PUBLIC COMMENT, UH, JULY 13TH, 2021 THROUGH AUGUST THE 11TH, 2021.
I WENT TO A RECEIVE FROM THE CALIFORNIA DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION, THE CITY OF COVINA, UH, WOODLINE WOOD LANE, VILLAGE HOMEOWNERS ASSOCIATION, THE TEAMSTERS LOCAL UNION, AND SIX CONCERNED INDIVIDUALS.
ALL OF THOSE LETTERS, UH, WERE RESPONDED TO AND WERE INCLUDED IN THE RESPONSE TO COMMENT DOCUMENT, WHICH WAS DISTRIBUTED AS PART OF THE PLANNING COMMISSION PACKET.
ENVIRONMENTAL WORK WAS DONE BY A CELIS, UH, THE CITY'S ENVIRONMENTAL CONSULTANT.
AND I'M GOING TO TURN IT OVER TO JIM HUNTER, WHO IS A PRINCIPAL WITH, UH, SO MUCH TO, UH, GIVE A BRIEF POWERPOINT ON THE MITIGATED NEG DEATH.
OKAY, GOOD EVENING, COMMISSIONERS STAFF, AND OTHER INTERESTED FOLKS.
UM, MY COMMENTS TONIGHT, WE'LL FOCUS ON THE CONTENT OF THE ENVIRONMENTAL DOCUMENT THAT WAS PREPARED ON THE PROPOSED PROJECT.
UM, CALIFORNIA ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY ACT REQUIRES THAT WHEN A PROPOSED PROJECT, UH, ENTAILS A DISCRETIONARY ACTION BY A LEAD AGENCY CITY, IN THIS CASE THAT AN ENVIRONMENTAL REVIEW, UM, IS CONDUCTED.
AND IN THIS CASE, UH, THE ENVIRONMENT
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IN ANY CASE, THE ENVIRONMENTAL REVIEW IT'S PURPOSE SOLE PURPOSE IS TO DISCLOSE THE POTENTIAL IMPACTS OF THE PROPOSED PROJECT.SECONDLY, IT IDENTIFIES, UH, FEASIBLE MITIGATION MEASURES TO REDUCE THOSE IMPACTS.
IN THIS CASE, THE INITIAL STUDY MITIGATED NEGATIVE DECLARATION WAS, UH, WAS PREPARED IN THE, UH, REVIEWED WITH CITY STAFF AND AGREED THAT THAT WAS THE APPROPRIATE SECRET DOCUMENT FOR THE PROPOSED PROJECT.
UH, THE SLIDE NOTES THAT THE CITY OF WEST COVINA IS THE LEAD AGENCY, UM, THAT IS STANDARD WHERE, UH, ANY PROJECT THAT IS REQUIRED FOR A SECRET REVIEW HAS A AGENCY THAT IS IN FRONT OF IT, THAT CASE IN THIS CASE, IT IS THE, UH, CITY OF WEST COVINA, UM, ISSUES ANALYZED IN THE ISM AND D UM, THE SECRET CHECKLIST INCLUDED 20 TOPICAL AREAS.
ALL 20 OF THESE WERE ADDRESSED IN THE INITIAL STUDY, MITIGATED NEGATIVE DECLARATION, UM, AESTHETICS, AGRICULTURAL, AND FORESTRY, OR QUALITY, BIOLOGICAL RESOURCES, CULTURAL RESOURCES, ENERGY, GEOLOGY, AND SOILS, GREENHOUSE GAS EMISSIONS, AS THERE IS IN HAZARDOUS MATERIALS, HYDROLOGY AND WATER QUALITY, AND DO SOME PLANNING, MIDDLE RESOURCES, NOISE POPULATION, AND HOUSING, PUBLIC SERVICES, RECREATION, TRANSPORTATION, TRIBAL, CULTURAL RESOURCES, UTILITIES, AND SERVICE SYSTEMS AND WILDFIRE.
UH, THE NEXT FEW SLIDES WE'LL FOCUS ON THE SUMMARY OF THE FINDINGS AND OF THE, UH, 20 TOPICS.
YOU CAN SEE THAT SEVERAL RE THE IMPACTS ANALYSIS RESULTED IN NO IMPACTS OR LESS THAN SIGNIFICANT IMPACTS.
UM, THERE'S 15 OF THE 20, AS A MATTER OF FACT, THAT, UH, HAD THAT CONCLUSION, UM, YOU'LL SEE, ON THIS SLIDE THAT THERE'S A, UH, AN RR IN PARENTHESES NEXT TO A COUPLE OF THE TOPICS.
I MEANS THERE'S REGULATORY REQUIREMENTS THAT APPLY TO THOSE TOPICS.
AND THOSE ARE, UM, THOSE ARE REQUIREMENTS THAT APPLY TO ANY PROJECT THAT IS BEING EVALUATED, UM, UNDER SEEQUA.
AND IT EVEN PROJECTS THAT, UH, THAT ARE, ARE, ARE, UM, UH, LOWEST CERTAIN THRESHOLD, THE CITY AND THE COUNTY, AND THE STATE HAVE REGULATORY REQUIREMENTS THAT APPLY TO LAND DEVELOPMENT.
SO THAT'S WHAT I JUST WANTED TO MAKE SURE EVERYONE UNDERSTOOD THAT.
UM, THAT'S THE NEXT SLIDE WE ACTUALLY GET INTO THOSE, UM, TOPICS THAT SIGNIFICANT IMPACTS WERE IDENTIFIED FOR, AND THAT MITIGATION MEASURES WERE PROPOSED TO REDUCE THOSE IMPACTS.
UH, THE FIRST ONE WAS BIOLOGICAL RESOURCES.
UM, UNDER THIS, THERE WAS ONE REGULATORY REQUIREMENT AND ONE MITIGATION MEASURE.
UM, THE MITIGATION MEASURE BIO ONE REQUIRES SITE PREPARATION AND CONSTRUCTION ACTIVITIES TO BE SCHEDULED OUTSIDE BIRD NESTING AND BREEDING SEASON.
TYPICALLY THAT'S MARCH 1ST THROUGH, UM, AUGUST 15TH OF EACH YEAR, IF DURING NESTING SEASON, UM, MITIGATION REQUIRES A NESTING BIRD SURVEY WITHIN 200 FEET OF DISTURBED OF THE DISTURBANCE AREA, A TEMPORARY BUFFER OF 200 FEET AROUND AN S SITE, IF ONE IS DISCOVERED AND THAT NO CLEARING OR CONSTRUCTION WOULD OCCUR WITHIN A TEMPORARY FENCED AREA UNTIL THE JUVENILES HAVE HAD FLEDGED FROM THE NEST.
UM, THE NEXT, UH, SIGNIFICANT IMPACT WAS UNDER CULTURAL RESOURCES.
AND THIS IS, UM, THIS IS AN, WHAT I LIKE TO CALL IT.
IF THEN KIND OF A, OF A MITIGATION MEASURE.
IT CALLS FOR QUALIFIED ARCHEOLOGISTS TO MONITOR GROUND DISTURBING ACTIVITIES IN NATIVE SOIL AND DIVERT EXCAVATION ACTIVITIES IN THE VICINITY OF A FIND IN THE EVENT OF DISCOVERY OF AN ARCHEOLOGICAL OR HISTORIC RESOURCE, UM, GEOLOGY AND SOILS MMG O ONE REQUIRES COMPLIANCE WITH THE RECOMMENDATIONS IN THE GEOTECHNICAL STUDY.
THAT'S BEEN COMPLETED BY KLEINFELTER FOR THE PROPOSED PROJECT AND ADDITIONAL FUTURE DESIGN LEVEL GEO-TECHNICAL INVESTIGATIONS OF THE PROJECT SITE, M G O TWO REQUIRES A GRADING ACTIVITIES ENCOUNTER UNKNOWN PALEONTOLOGICAL RESOURCES AROUND DISTURBING ACTIVITIES WILL CEASE QUALIFIED PALEONTOLOGISTS WILL EXAMINE THE MATERIALS AND RECOMMENDED COURSE OF ACTION TO PROTECT, RECOVER, OR SALVAGE.
WHAT WAS FOUND UNDER THE TOPIC OF HAZARDS AND HAZARDOUS MATERIALS.
AND THEN HAS ONE REQUIRES ADDITIONAL SOIL VAPOR SAMPLING TO VERIFY CURRENT VAPOR LEVELS COMPARED TO APPROPRIATE RISK-BASED LEVELS.
IF ABOVE SCREENING LEVELS, OTHER ACTION WILL BE DEVELOPED IN CONSULTATION WITH THE APPROPRIATE AGENCIES UNDER THE TOPIC OF TRANSPORTATION.
THERE'S A, THERE'S A FEW HERE.
UM, TRANSPORTATION NUMBER ONE REQUIRES A NEW TRAFFIC SIGNAL AT THE INTERSECTION OF CUTAWAY AND PROJECT DRIVEWAY.
NUMBER SEVEN THAT'S PROTECTION.
NUMBER TWO REQUIRES VEGETATION ALONG THE DRIVEWAYS ON VIDEO STREET TO, UM, MAINTAIN A CLEAR LINE
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OF SIGHT OF EXISTING VEHICLES.NUMBER THREE REQUIRES NEW RED CURVES ALONG VIDEO STREET TO PROVIDE A CLEAR LINE OF SIGHT OF EXISTING VEHICLES.
NUMBER FOUR REQUIRES A SIGNAL AND STRIPING PLAN TO ACCOMMODATE LEFT TURN LANES AND POCKETS ON BOTH APPROACHES OF SAN BERNARDINO ROAD AT CUTAWAY TRANSPORTATION.
NUMBER FIVE REQUIRES INSTALLATION OF A T I BELIEVE THIS IS A TYPO.
IT SHOULD BE TWO WAY LEFT TURN LANE ALONG THE ENTIRE PROJECT EAST OF COLORWAY TRANSPORTATION.
NUMBER SIX REQUIRES THE AMOUNT OF RED CURB ON SAN BERNARDINO ROAD TO BE SHOWN ON ALL PLANS.
THE AMOUNT OF RED CURB WILL BE DETERMINED BY THE APPLICANT'S ENGINEER.
TRANSPORTATION NUMBER SEVEN REQUIRES INSTALLATION OF SIGNS ASSOCIATED WITH THE CONCEPTUAL STRIPING PLAN.
AND THOSE ARE THE FINDINGS AND A GENERAL SUMMARY OF THE ENVIRONMENTAL DOCUMENT.
SO THE NEXT SLIDE DISCUSSES COMMUNITY OUTREACH AND NOTICES.
UH, THERE WAS A NEIGHBORHOOD MEETING HELD AUGUST THE 30TH, 2021.
IT WAS A, UH, WEBINAR, UH, DO THE DUE TO THE PANDEMIC.
AND, UH, THE FACT THAT WE COULD NOT MEET IN PURPOSE, I WAS HELD BY THE DEVELOPER.
UH, THE DEVELOPER ALSO DID ADDITIONAL OUTREACH.
UH, THEY MET WITH PEOPLE IN PERSON, UH, ALSO, UH, ANSWERED QUESTIONS VIA EMAIL, AND THEY DID A NEIGHBORHOOD WALK IN THE NEIGHBORHOODS SOUTH OF BADDIEL AND, UH, KNOCKED ON DOORS AND TALKED TO, UH, THE RESIDENTS THERE IN TERMS OF THE LEGAL NOTICING, UH, THAT WAS, UM, DISTRIBUTED.
UH, ONE WOULD BE THE SEQUELA THAT, UH, WAS NOTICED, UH, FOR THE COMMENT PERIOD.
IT WAS NOTICED ON JULY 13, UH, INDICATING THAT THE COMMENT PERIOD, UH, SQL COMMENT PERIOD ENDED AN AUGUST THE 11TH.
AND THEN OF COURSE, THE PUBLIC HEARING NOTICE, UH, FOR THE HEARING TONIGHT THAT WAS SENT OUT ON SEPTEMBER THE 16TH.
AND WITH THAT, UH, STAFF IS RECOMMENDING THAT THE PLANNING COMMISSION ADOPT THE RESOLUTIONS YOU HAVE, UH, IN YOUR PACKET, THE RESOLUTIONS NUMBER 21 DASH 6 0 9 3 THROUGH 21 DASH 6 0 9 8.
UH, THEY WOULD RECOMMEND TO THE CITY COUNCIL, UM, APPROVAL OF THE PRECISE PLAN, THE TREE REMOVAL PERMIT, THE TENTATIVE PARCEL MAP, THE GENERAL PLAN AMENDMENT ZONE CHANGE AND DEVELOPMENT AGREEMENT.
GENERALLY THE PLANNING COMMISSION WOULD BE THE FINAL DECISION MAKING BODY ON THE PRECISE PLAN AND TREE REMOVAL PERMIT.
BUT SINCE THERE ARE LEGISLATIVE ACTIONS THAT NEED TO GO TO THE CITY COUNCIL SESSIONS, THE GENERAL PLAN AMENDMENT AND ZONE CHANGE, AND THEN ALSO THEY ARE THE FINAL DECISION MAKING BODY ON THE DEVELOPMENT AGREEMENT.
ALL OF THE, UM, PERMITS WILL BE FORWARDED TO THE CITY COUNCIL AND THE PLANNING COMMISSION WILL ACT IN THE ROLE OF A RECOMMENDING BODY IN THIS CASE, THAT CONCLUDES STAFF PRESENTATION AND WE ARE AVAILABLE, UH, FOR QUESTIONS.
THANK YOU FOR THE STAFF REPORT.
DOES THE PLANNING COMMISSION HAVE ANY QUESTIONS OR STAFF TO MAKE SURE GUTIERREZ? WE SURE.
CAN WE SHARE, HANG VICE CHAIR LEWIS AT THIS TIME, AT THIS TIME WE'LL OPEN PUBLIC HEARING AND WE'LL HEAR TESTIMONY FROM THE APPLICANT.
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IF YOU DON'T MIND THAT I REMOVED MY MASK.WELL, GOOD EVENING MEMBERS OF THE COMMISSION, I'M SORRY, CHAIR BISSERA AND MEMBERS OF THE COMMISSION.
AND THANK YOU AND CONGRATULATE ALL OF YOU, NEW MEMBERS.
IT'S FANTASTIC THAT FOUR OF YOU HAVE JOINED YOUR COMMISSION.
IT IS AN EXTRAORDINARY HONOR TO BE A PLANNING COMMISSIONER FOR A CITY.
MY BACKGROUND IS MUCH LIKE YOURS.
I COME FROM GOVERNMENT, I SPENT 36 YEARS AS EITHER A COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT DIRECTOR, A CITY MANAGER IN VARIOUS CITIES.
SO WHEN I BECAME QUITE OLD, I DECIDED I'D BE A CONSULTANT AND HELP COMMUNICATE BETWEEN CITIES AND APPLICANTS.
SO IN THIS CASE, I AM THE COMMUNICATOR BETWEEN AMAZON AND THE BUYER, YOUR GREEN LAW PARTNERS.
AND I REPRESENTED GREENLAW PARTNERS FOR THE LAST 10 YEARS.
SO I KNOW THEM QUITE WELL, VERY REPUTABLE FIRM.
AND THAT'S WHY I'M HERE TONIGHT TO TALK ABOUT WHAT THEY'RE DOING NOW.
I HAD A LENGTHY PRESENTATION TO MAKE, AND THE STAFF WENT AND COVERED EVERYTHING.
SO NOW I'M SITTING HERE LOOKING AT WELL, I'D LIKE TO THEN JUST COVER THE AREAS THAT I THINK ARE PROBABLY MOST IMPORTANT THAT MAYBE THEY DIDN'T AND NOT TAKE UP TOO MUCH OF YOUR TIME TONIGHT TO START WITH, UH, WHY LET'S, UM, LET'S SEE IF WE CAN GET THE SLIDES GOING.
WELL, I'LL JUST BE A LITTLE FREAKING START WITH SLIDE TWO.
SO, ANYWAY, WHILE THEY'RE DOING THAT, UH, WHO WE ARE, THE DEVELOPER IN THIS CASE IS GREENLAW PARTNERS.
GREENLAW PARTNERS IS BASED IN ORANGE COUNTY.
UH, THEY HAVE BEEN AROUND FOR OVER 15 YEARS, DEVELOPERS AND OWNERS OF LARGE COMMERCIAL OFFICE COMPLEXES, RETAIL IN A PARTICULAR RIGHT NOW THEY REPRESENT AMAZON.
AMAZON WOULD BE THE TENANT IN THIS PARTICULAR BUILDING, A GREEN LAWS WORKED WITH AMAZON AND 20 DIFFERENT OTHER SITES.
I'VE WORKED WITH THEM ON FIVE SITES.
SO WHY DID THEY COME TO WEST COVINA? WEST COVINA HAS A VERY POSITIVE IMAGE.
AMAZON AND GREENLAW PARTNERS LOOKED AT THE CITY AND SAID, THERE IS A DEMAND IN THIS CITY FOR ADDITIONAL SERVICES TO THE AMAZON CUSTOMERS.
SO AN AMAZON LOOKED AT ITS PROFILE AS FAR AS WHERE THEIR CUSTOMER TRADE AREA WAS.
THEY FELT THAT WEST COVINA COVINA AND THIS CENTRAL AREA AS A GREATER NEED FOR ADDITIONAL DELIVERY THAN CURRENTLY EXISTS, THE DEMAND DRAMATICALLY INCREASED DURING THE COVID SHUTDOWN.
SO AFTER TALKING TO VARIOUS CITIES AND LOOKING AT YOUR CITY'S WEBSITE, YOU'RE A VERY POSITIVE CITY.
YOU HAVE A VERY STRONG ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM.
YOU WANT MORE JOBS, YOU WANT MORE REVENUE TO THE CITY.
AMAZON WAS IMPRESSED AND GREENLAW PARTNERS WAS IMPRESSED.
MET YOUR CITY STAFF EVEN MORE IMPRESSED.
AND WE'D LIKE TO, AGAIN, THANK COLLEEN, UM, POLINA, UH, JOANNE JOYCE, WHO WORKED ON THE PROJECT CITY MANAGER CARMONEY THEY ALL DID A GREAT JOB.
WE'VE WORKED ON THIS PROJECT FOR ALMOST TWO YEARS WITH YOUR CITY.
TONIGHT IS THE CULMINATION OF TWO LONG YEARS WHERE THE WORK OF ADJUSTING, MODIFYING AND REVISING THIS PROJECT WHERE WE THINK IT FITS PERFECT FOR YOUR CITY.
WHEN BREEDING YOU AS MANY POSITIVE ASPECTS AS POSSIBLE.
AND VERY FEW, IF ANY NEGATIVE ASPECTS.
SO IF WE CAN GO TO SLIDE THREE, OR DO YOU WANT ME TO TRY, OKAY.
TECHNOLOGY? SO WHY THIS PARTICULAR PIECE OF PROPERTY, THIS PROPERTY HAS A LONG HISTORY.
IT WAS BUILT AS AN INDUSTRIAL BUILDING.
IT IS AN INDUSTRIAL BUILDING IS CONCRETE TILT-UP TYPE CONSTRUCTION.
IT FRONTED ONTO SAN BERNARDINO ROAD WHEN IT WAS BUILT.
AND IT WAS FIRST OCCUPIED BY HONEYWELL CORPORATION NAME, WELL MANUFACTURED ELECTRONICS IN THE AEROSPACE INDUSTRY TODAY, YOU PROBABLY KNOW THEM ON YOUR HOUSE.
YOUR THERMOSTAT ON THE WALL IS A HONEYWELL THERMOSTAT.
WITH THE YEARS THAT WENT BY HONEYWELL, THEN MOVED FROM THE PROPERTY.
THE PROPERTY WAS THEN OCCUPIED BY HUGHES ELECTRONICS USE, UH, WAS ALSO AN AEROSPACE
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MANUFACTURER AND THEY EITHER STARTED AND CREATED EITHER DISH NETWORK OR DIRECT TV, BUT THEY WERE THE CREATORS OF THE DISH SATELLITE SYSTEM.BUT AS TIME WENT BY, SOMEWHERE IN THE LATE NINETIES, EARLY TWO THOUSANDS INDUSTRY MOVED OUT OF THIS BUILDING LEFT IT, IT WAS BASICALLY AN EMPTY DESERTED BUILDING.
IT WAS PURCHASED BY FAITH COMMUNITY, CHURCH, FAITH CHURCH DECIDED IT MET THEIR NEEDS.
VERY SMALL BUILDING TO SIZE RATIO, HUGE PARKING AREA.
SO FAITH CAME TO THE CITY AND THE CITY CHANGED THE ZONING AND THE GENERAL PLAN FROM INDUSTRIAL AND MANUFACTURING
SO IT WAS A VERY SITE-SPECIFIC ZONING THAT ONLY ALLOWS CHURCHES.
IN FACT, WHAT'S REALLY FUNNY IS IN THE ZONING CODE.
IT ALSO ALLOWS A MAUSOLEUM AND BURIAL ON THE SITE, BUT WE WON'T MENTION THAT AT THIS POINT IN TIME.
BUT, UH, THE CHURCH HAS BEEN THERE FOR MANY YEARS.
THEY'VE ENJOYED THE, THE HOME IN WEST COVINA.
THEY HAVE MANY MEMBERS HERE BACK LAST, EASTER, EASTER SUNDAY, AND A 24 HOUR PERIOD, OVER 8,000 MEMBERS OF THE CONGREGATION PASS THROUGH THIS PROPERTY.
SO IF YOU THINK 140 SOME VANS IS A LOT TRY 8,000 ON EASTER SUNDAY, THAT'S THE LEVEL OF TRAFFIC HAS BEEN PASSING THROUGH HERE.
AS THIS CHURCH HAS BEEN SO SUCCESSFUL.
THEY DO HOWEVER WISH TO SELL, MOVE ON TO BUILDING SMALLER NEIGHBORHOOD TYPE CHURCHES.
THEY STILL WILL BE IN YOUR COMMUNITY, YOUR SAME CONGREGATION MEMBERS.
THEY LOVE WEST COVINA, SO THEY WILL BE AROUND, BUT THEY NEED TO DOWNSIZE.
SO WE'RE SIMPLY ASKING AS THE APPLICANT TO CHANGE THE PROPERTY BACK TO ITS ORIGINAL GENERAL PLAN, ITS ORIGINAL ZONING AND REPURPOSE IT BACK TO WHAT IT WAS BUILT AS AN INDUSTRIAL BUILDING.
NOW WHY THE 12, 11 EAST BDO ADDRESS VERSUS SAN BERNARDINO, WHEN THE CHURCH BOUGHT THE PROPERTY, THEY DIDN'T LIKE THE ENTRY OUT ON SAN BERNARDINO AND CREATED THE ENTRY ON THE BACKSIDE OF THE DEAL.
SO THAT WAS AN ADDITION TO THE BUILDING.
SO THE ADDRESS WAS ACTUALLY SWITCHED FROM 1200 WEST SAN BERNARDINO ROAD TO THE 1211, THE DEO ADDRESS, MORE NEIGHBORHOOD ORIENTED, BETTER FOR DROPPING OFF CHILDREN FOR THE SCHOOL.
SO THAT WAS THE OCCASION WE'RE PROPOSING TO GO BACK TO WHAT IT ORIGINALLY WAS AGAIN, BECAUSE THE BUILDING DOES FRONT ON SAN BERNARDINO ROAD.
AND ALSO THEN FOR MAPPING PURPOSES, WHEN VEHICLES COME TO THE SITE, WE WANT THEM TO HAVE A SAN BERNARDINO ROAD ADDRESS.
SINCE VIDEO IS NOT A TRUCK ROUTE.
AND WHAT DOES A TRUCK ROUTE, A TRUCK ROUTE IN THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA AND IT'S IN STATE LAW IS WHERE A TRUCK THAT'S GREATER THAN 12,000 POUNDS IN DELIVERING GOODS MUST STAY ON A TRUCK ROUTE UNLESS IT HAS A DELIVERY DOCUMENT CALLED A BILL OF LADING.
SO WITHOUT THAT, THE TRUCKS THAT PASS THROUGH THIS AREA, THE CITY MUST GO EAST AND WEST, WEST AND EAST ON SAN BERNARDINO ROAD.
THAT IS THE DESIGNATED TRUCK ROUTE IN THIS AREA.
SO JUST LIKE THE DOE, UM, THE HOME DEPOT EAST OF THIS SITE WHO HAS A TRUCK DOCK, VERY SIMILARLY TRUCKS COME FROM EITHER THE 10 FREEWAY OR THE TWO 10 ZOOS IN NORTH AND SOUTH IS THE TRUCK GROUP EAST AND WEST IS SAN BERNARDINO ROAD.
IT'S A LOGICALLY, THAT'S WHY IT'S BEEN DESIGNED AS SUCH THE NEW DRIVEWAY, UH, ENTRY POINT ON THE EAST.
I'M SORRY, THE WEST SIDE OF THE PROPERTY, THE SIGNAL IS BEING PLACED THERE TO MAKE IT A SAFER TURN INTO THE PROPERTY.
THE TRAFFIC STUDY THOUGH, ACTUALLY DID NOT REQUIRE THE SIGNAL FOR THE AMOUNT OF TRAFFIC THAT'S INCREASING, WHICH IS NOT SIGNIFICANT.
IT REQUIRED IT FOR SAFETY PURPOSES BECAUSE THERE WAS A FEELING THAT WITH TRUCKS MAKING THE LEFT TURN ONLY ONE AT A TIME.
AND AT ONE ABOUT EVERY HOUR, THAT WOULD BE BETTER AND SAFER TO HAVE FOUR WAY DEDICATED, LEFT TURN.
AND WE WORKED WITH THE CITY OF COVINA AS WELL, AND THEY REALLY WANTED THE SIGNAL THERE.
SO THAT'S WHY THEY DIGITAL SIGNAL, NOT BASED ON AN INCREASE IN TRAFFIC VOLUMES JOBS, UH, WE FEEL ARE IMPORTANT TO YOUR COMMUNITY.
YOU'RE LOOKING FOR JOBS, YOU'RE LOOKING FOR SALES TAX.
SO I AM GOING TO SIMPLY MOVE FORWARD A LITTLE BIT AND TALK ABOUT A DELIVERY STATION.
SO ANY CHANCE YOU CAN FIND SLIDE NUMBER SIX, SORRY.
OH, YOU KNOW WHAT? JUST, UM, WE'LL LEAVE IT RIGHT THERE.
SO WHAT IS A PARCEL DELIVERY STATION? THIS IS VERY NEW.
AMAZON HAS FOR YEARS BEEN USING FEDERAL EXPRESS FEDEX UNITED PARCEL SERVICES IN THE U S P S TO DELIVER PACKAGES.
BUT THE DEMAND HAS GROWN SO MUCH THAT THEY FEEL THAT THEY CAN ENTER THE MARKETPLACE AND THEY CAN MORE EFFICIENTLY DELIVER THEIR OWN PRODUCTS.
SO YOU SEE MANY OF THE AMAZON VANS IN YOUR COMMUNITY ALREADY.
SO PEOPLE SAY THIS FACILITY WOULD ADD MORE TRAFFIC.
IF YOU THINK ABOUT THAT FOR A MINUTE, THE VANS ALREADY EXIST.
THEY'RE ALREADY PASSING THROUGH YOUR COMMUNITY.
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ALREADY GOING TO BUSINESSES AND HOMES.THE DIFFERENCE IS THAT THE SOURCE, THE LOCATION WHERE THEY'RE COMING FROM THIS WILL BE A NEW POINT IN WHICH THEY CAN DISPATCH FROM HERE OR EFFICIENT SERVE YOUR CITY BETTER.
BUT OTHERWISE IT'S THE SAME VEHICLE THAT'S PASSING THROUGH.
BUT THESE VEHICLES IN YOUR CITY NOW WILL BE AN EXPANSION FOR THE COMPANY.
AND THESE WILL REPRESENT NEW JOBS.
SO AMAZON WILL BE HIRING LOCALLY DRIVERS OF VANS AND THE ASSOCIATES WHO WORK INSIDE THE WAREHOUSE.
SO THE PARCEL DELIVERY WAREHOUSE OR PARCEL DELIVERY STATION, WHAT IS IT? PICTURE YOUR UNITED STATES POST OFFICE IN YOUR NEIGHBORHOODS AT A POST OFFICE? WHAT DO THEY HAVE? THE TRUCK COMES INTO THE MIDDLE OF THE NIGHT, DELIVERS THE PACKAGES IN THE MAIL SORTED IN THE MORNING, TIME BY THE MAIL CARRIER MAIL CARRIER PUTS IT IN THEIR TRUCK AND TAKES IT OUT AND DELIVERS TO ALL THE HOMES.
IN THIS CASE, THE SAME SINGLE TYPE TRAILER TRUCKS DELIVER THE PACKAGES IN THE NIGHT FROM A FULFILLMENT CENTER.
SO WE DON'T WANT ANYONE TO CONFUSE THIS WITH AN AMAZON FULFILLMENT CENTER.
THOSE ARE THE BIG MEGA WAREHOUSES YOU SEE OUT OFF OF THE 15 FREEWAY AND OUT IN SAN BERNARDINO, THE MILLION SQUARE FOOT PLUS BUILDINGS.
THE TRUCKS COME FROM THERE WITH THE LITTLE DELIVERY STATION THAT THIS IS THE PACKAGES COME IN ALL NIGHT LONG.
THEY'RE SORTED BY A NIGHT CREW BY THE ASSOCIATES.
THE NIGHT CREW, UH, PUTS THEM BY ZIP CODE AND NEIGHBORHOOD INTO POUCHES.
AND THEN IN THE DAYTIME, THAT'S WHEN THE DRIVERS SHOW UP.
SO THE DRIVERS DON'T EVEN COME TO THIS PROPERTY UNTIL NINE 30 IN THE MORNING.
WE DON'T WANT THEM GOING OUT IN THE PEAK PERIODS, WHICH ARE SEVEN TO 9:00 AM OR FOUR TO 6:00 PM.
THAT'S WHEN YOUR TRAFFIC FROM COMMUTERS ARE OCCURRING.
SO THESE DRIVERS ARE SHOWING UP AROUND NINE TO NINE 30.
THEY ARE CALLED EACH BAY DAY BY THE DEMAND THAT'S NEEDED.
SO OVER THE NIGHTTIME, WHEN THE PACKAGES COME IN, AMAZON KNOWS ABOUT HOW MANY DRIVERS THEY NEED FOR THE NEXT DAY.
SO THE CALL GOES OUT AND IN THE NEXT MORNING SHIFT THAT MANY DRIVERS SHOW UP, ARC THEIR CAR, CHECK OUT THE VAN AND GO IN AND GET IN LINE AND STAGE.
AND THEY GO INTO THE BUILDING VANS DO NOT LEAVE THIS SITE FOR DELIVERY UNTIL 10:00 AM.
SO NO VAN'S GOING TO LEAVE THIS PROPERTY, NO OTHER TRUCK OR VEHICLE LEAVES DURING THAT TIMEFRAME.
THE VANS LEAVE STARTING AT 10.
AND YOU CAN SEE ON, IF YOU GO TO SLIDE NUMBER EIGHT, THE SITE PLAN SOMEBODY COULDN'T FIND THAT.
UM, NO, THE NEW SITE, THERE WE GO.
LET'S JUST KEEP THAT ONE ON THE SCREEN.
IF YOU CAN SEE TO THE RIGHT SIDE OR THE EAST SIDE OF THE BUILDING, WHICH LOOKS LIKE VANS PARKED IN CLUSTERS, THE DELIVERY VANS ARE THE DELIVERY SERVICE PROVIDERS, UH, DRIVERS LINE UP THERE FIRST.
SO IF THERE ARE ENOUGH NEEDED, THEY'LL FILL UP THE FIRST CLUSTER.
AND IF MORE NITA THEY'LL FILL UP THE SECOND STARTING ABOUT NINE 30 OR SO, THE FIRST GROUP IS LED INSIDE THE BUILDING.
AND THEN AT THAT POINT, THOSE DRIVERS OUT OF A WINDOW OF 20 TO 30 MINUTES TO TAKE AND LOAD THEIR OWN VANS, THEY LOAD, THEY HAVE A FULL, UM, DISPATCH SYSTEM IN WHICH THEY KNOW WHO'S GOING TO WHAT AND WHERE, AND EXACTLY 20 TO 30 MINUTES, THE GROUPS ARE RELEASED OUT ONTO SAN BERNARDINO ROAD.
THEY'LL EITHER TURN RIGHT GOING EAST OR LEFT GOING WEST.
AND THEY'RE DISPERSED THOSE VANS STAY OUT NINE TO 10 HOURS A DAY.
THEY DO NOT START RETURNING TO THE SITE UNTIL IN THE EVENING.
SO WHEN THEY START RETURNING, THEY RANDOMLY COME ONE AT A TIME, MOST WILL RETURN ALONG THE VIDEO.
SOME MAY RETURN ON SAN BERNARDINO ROAD, BUT THEY'LL WORK THEIR WAY BACK TO THE PARKING LOT, PARKED THEIR VAN.
THE DRIVER GETS IN THEIR CAR AND GOES HOME.
BUT SINCE THIS IS A SEVEN DAY A WEEK OPERATION, MANY OF THOSE DRIVERS WILL ONLY BE WORKING A FOUR DAY SHIFT.
SO THERE ARE OVERLAPS IN DRIVERS AND VEHICLES.
MOST DRIVERS ARE ASSIGNED TO THEIR OWN VAN.
THEREFORE YOU HAVE FAR MORE VANS THAN ARE USED IN A GIVEN DAY BECAUSE THEY'RE USED BY DIFFERENT DRIVERS AT DIFFERENT TIMES.
SO THAT'S A PARCEL DELIVERY STATION, HOW IT WORKS.
IT'S WORKING VERY SUCCESSFULLY IN MANY OTHER CITIES IN SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA.
UH, WE ARE HAVING A GOOD EXPERIENCE.
IN FACT, IN THOSE CITIES, I HAVE NOT HEARD OF COMPLAINTS.
I HAVE NOT HEARD OF ANYTHING TO DO WITH NOISE TRAFFIC AND THE LIKE, UM, BUT, UH, WE'LL HEAR AND WE'LL CONTINUE ON LITTLE BIT MORE ABOUT THE TYPES OF VEHICLES.
AGAIN, IT OVERLAPS A LITTLE BIT WITH THE STAFF, BUT IN THIS SITE PLAN, JOYCE HAD SHOWN YOU THE UPPER LEFT CORNER WHERE THAT PARKING LOT EXISTS AND THE BLACK LINE, WHICH IS THE 12 FOOT WALL.
SO WHY IS THAT WALL THERE? THE CONSULTANTS DID THE NOISE STUDY AND THE NOISE STUDY DETERMINED THAT THERE WOULD BE INSIGNIFICANT ALMOST NOT PERCEPTIBLE LEVELS OF NOISE OFF THIS PROPERTY THAT MEANT SOUTH ACROSS PODIO OR EAST INTO THE LARK ELLEN APARTMENT COMPLEX.
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THAT WALL IS NOT REQUIRED BY THE NOISE STUDY.THAT WALL HAS BEEN VOLUNTEERED BY THE DEVELOPER GREENLAW PARTNERS, BECAUSE WE WANT TO BE ABSOLUTELY CERTAIN THAT THOSE TRUCKS THAT COME IN AT NIGHTTIME ARE NOT SEEN OR HEARD.
SO ANY TRUCK THAT COMES IN AT NIGHT DELIVER THE PACKAGES COMES IN FROM THE SIGNAL OFF OF SAN BERNARDINO ROAD DRIVES DOWN THAT DRIVEWAY IS HIDDEN BEHIND THE 12 FOOT WALL.
A TRUCK TRAILERS ARE GENERALLY 13 FEET HIGH.
SO NO ONE TO THE SOUTH ACROSS
AND THEN THAT SAME TRUCK DOCK AREA HAS A 12 FOOT WALL ON ITS OTHER SIDE.
SO THE TRUCKS ARE ISOLATED IN THERE.
THEY COME AND THEY GO, IT WILL NOT BE SEEN OR HEARD BY ANYONE IN A RESIDENCE.
THE BUILDINGS TO THE WEST OF HERE ARE ALL INDUSTRIAL AND THE CITY OF COVINA.
SO WE ISOLATED IT INTENTIONALLY.
THE EMPLOYEES WHO WORK IN THIS FACILITY MOST WORK IN THE NIGHT SHIFT AND THEY'RE IN THAT SAME PARKING AREA.
SO THAT WAY THEY ALSO HAVE A VERY SECURE ENVIRONMENT BECAUSE MANY OF THESE ARE INDIVIDUALS WHO HAVE TO GO TO THEIR CARS, ONE, TWO IN THE MORNING TO LEAVE OR MAY ARRIVE.
AND THERE'S ALSO RIDESHARE DROP-OFF AND PICK UP, UH, OUTDOOR WALKING AREA.
AND JUST INSIDE, THERE IS A VERY LAVISH FLOOR PLAN THAT HAS BREAK ROOM, UM, REST AREAS, RESTROOMS, AND THE LIKE WHERE THE EMPLOYEES WORK.
SO IT'S A VERY NICE FACILITY, THE WAY IT'S OUTLINED, BUT THAT IS THE EXISTING BUILDING.
THERE'S NOT A SINGLE ADDITIONAL SQUARE FOOT BEING ADDED TO THAT BUILDING.
THE SITE IS EXACTLY THE SAME, WHAT WE ARE REALLY DOING.
AND YOU SUMMARIZE ALL OF THIS DOWN INTO A SIMPLE REQUEST IS THAT WE'RE REQUESTING THAT WHEN THE CHURCH MOVES OUT, AMAZON MOVES IN THE INSIDE OF THE BUILDING IS REMODELED.
THE OUTSIDE IS GREATLY IMPROVED, PAINTED RE LANDSCAPE, AND THEY'D BE ALLOWED TO OPERATE.
IT'S NOT ANY WORLDLY, GREAT IMPACT.
IT SHOULDN'T AFFECT ANYBODY, BUT IT SHOULD HAVE VERY POSITIVE EFFECTS FOR THE COMMUNITY IN REGARD TO MORE JOBS AND INCOME AND SERVICES.
I NEED TO SKIP ALL THE OTHER SLIDES BECAUSE THE STAFF'S ALREADY COVERED THOSE AT THIS POINT.
SO I GUESS THE METALS WOULD JUST GO TOWARDS THE END.
YOU CAN SEE, WELL, THAT'S A GOOD SLIDE TO LOOK AT.
IF WE CAN BACK UP ONE, THE ARCHITECTURE, THAT'S THE BUILDING THAT EXISTS TODAY.
IT'S BEEN REPAINTED REMODELED.
IT HIT WILL HAVE NEW SIGNING, UPGRADED LANDSCAPE, SO THAT I THINK WILL BE A DRAMATIC IMPROVEMENT FOR YOUR CITY.
THIS IS YOU'RE ATTRACTING AN AMAZON BUILDING.
UH, MOST CITIES THAT WE DEAL WITH OUT THERE, LOOK AT THIS, LIKE, I'M SURE YOU DO.
THIS IS THE LARGEST CORPORATION IN THE UNITED STATES.
AND THEY PICKED YOU OVER YOUR COMPETING CITIES AND THE NEIGHBORHOOD, AND YOU KNOW WHO THEY ARE.
AND WE THANK THE STAFF FOR THAT.
AND WE'VE BEEN WORKING HARD WITH THIS.
SO IF WE CAN GO, UM, BASICALLY TO THE END IS TO SLIDE NUMBER 13.
I WILL SPARE GOING THROUGH ALL THE OTHER DETAILS, THE BENEFITS TO THE COMMUNITY.
AGAIN, AS WE'VE MENTIONED, THIS SHOULD GENERATE AT LEAST 250 NEW JOBS FOR YOUR COMMUNITY.
WE FEEL THEY ARE GOOD PAYING JOBS.
THEY START AT A MINIMUM OF $15 AN HOUR, WHICH IS ALMOST DOUBLE.
THE LOWEST LEVEL OF MINIMUM WAGE.
THIS PROPERTY CURRENTLY IS ON, UH, IS EXEMPT FROM PROPERTY TAXES.
WHEN IT CONVERTS OVER TO THIS BUILDING, IT WILL GENERATE AROUND $80,000 A YEAR, EVERY YEAR, A NEW PROPERTY TAX.
THE CITY IS NOT CURRENTLY RECEIVING ADDITIONALLY, UH, THE SALES PACK, THE SALES TAX REPLACEMENT AGREEMENT THAT HAS BEEN NEGOTIATED AND DISCUSSED.
THIS PROJECT WILL BE PAYING THE CITY IN LIEU OF GENERATING SALES TAX, BECAUSE AMAZON DOES NOT COLLECT SALES TAX.
SO AMAZON AND GREENLAW PARTNERS ARE PROPOSING A SALES TAX DEVELOPMENT AGREEMENT THAT WILL PAY THE CITY $2 MILLION IN THIS COMING YEAR AND $200,000 A YEAR FOR THE FOLLOWING 10 YEARS TO REPLACE THE SALES TAX THAT A SALES TAX GENERATING BUSINESS WOULD HAVE GENERATED ON THIS SITE, WE'VE COVERED THE COMMUNITY OUTREACH.
WE'VE BEEN VERY IMPRESSED IN THE COMMUNITY OUTREACH.
WE HAD OUR ONLINE MEETING, WHICH I CONDUCTED IN THE ONLINE MEETING.
I BELIEVE WE HAD SOMEWHERE IN THE RANGE OF SIX TO EIGHT CITIZENS WHO PARTICIPATED NOTICES WERE SENT OUT TO EVERYONE.
UH, IT WAS A RESIDENT WITHIN 300 FEET.
SO IT WAS A VERY LOW TURNOUT TO THE ONLINE AND THOSE, UH, WHO CALLED IN EXPRESSED A FEW QUESTIONS, BUT NOTHING I WOULD CONSIDER TO BE EXTREME CRITICISM WITHIN WALKED.
UM, I CAN'T PRONOUNCE THE STREET L UH, GINA, UH, THE FIRST RESIDENTIAL STREET, SOUTH OF THE DEAL WALK THE ENTIRE BLOCK.
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MOST PEOPLE ON THE STREET EITHER DID NOT HAVE AN OPINION, UH, LISTENED.THERE WAS ONE OR TWO THAT MAYBE HAD QUESTIONS.
DON'T BOTHER US, NO SOLICITORS, BUT NO SIGNIFICANT OPPOSITION ON THE STREET, NO SERIOUS OPINIONS.
AND WE THINK HAS MOST PEOPLE SEE ACROSS VIDEO THAT, UH, NOTHING WILL REALLY CHANGE IT.
IT WILL BE BASICALLY THE SAME.
AND IN FACT, YOU PROBABLY HAVE A LOT LESS TRAFFIC ON THE WEEKENDS.
SO WITH THAT, I WILL SUMMARIZE DOWN TO THE VERY END YOU HAVE IN FRONT OF YOU TONIGHT, A SERIES OF SIX DIFFERENT APPLICATIONS FOR REVIEW.
THE SUMMARY TO THIS IS THAT THESE ARE ALL THE APPLICATIONS TONIGHT THAT WE ARE ASKING YOU TO RECOMMEND APPROVAL TO YOUR CITY COUNCIL.
UNFORTUNATELY, YOU DON'T HAVE THE ABILITY TO GIVE THE FINAL APPROVAL TONIGHT.
I WISH YOU COULD, BUT YOU MAKE THE RECOMMENDATION.
THE CITY COUNCIL WILL BE DOING THE SAME PRESENTATION TO THE CITY COUNCIL.
THEN ON OCTOBER, 1600 19, THE GENERAL PLAN AMENDMENT.
AGAIN, WE REQUEST THAT YOU APPROVE THAT.
IT GOES FROM THE CURRENT CIVIC GENERAL PLAN DESIGNATION BACK TO INDUSTRIAL.
WE ASK THAT YOU CHANGED THE ZONING, MAKE RECOMMENDATION FROM THE FAITH CHURCH BACK TO THE
THE PRECISE PLAN IS THE DEVELOPMENT PLAN.
WE ASK THAT YOU RECOMMEND THAT TO THE CITY COUNCIL LEAVE, SPEND A LOT OF TIME AND MONEY TO ENHANCE THAT PROPERTY, IMPROVE IT, AND REALLY MAKE IT SOMETHING OF VALUE AND SOMETHING THAT YOU WILL BE HONORED TO HAVE YOUR NAME ON TO SEEING THE COMMUNITY SUCH A NICE PIECE OF PROPERTY THAT'S BEEN REMODELED AND BROUGHT BACK TO LIFE.
AGAIN, THERE IS A PARCEL MAP IN THAT PROCESS OF THE PARCEL MAP IS BECAUSE THERE WERE TWO EXISTING LOTS FROM YEARS AGO.
AND FOR SOME REASON, THEY STILL EXIST IN THE BUILDINGS.
EVEN ON TOP OF IT, UNDER CURRENT LAWS, YOU CAN'T HAVE A BUILDING OVER A PROPERTY LINE.
SO THE PARCEL MAP SIMPLY TO ELIMINATE THAT LINE AND MAKE IT THE ONE PARCEL THAT YOU SEE ON THE SITE PLAN.
THERE'S NOTHING ELSE TO THE PARCEL MAP, THE TREE REMOVAL PERMIT.
IT'S THREE TREES WHERE THE CUTTER DRIVEWAY IS RIGHT NOW.
UM, I'M SORRY, NEXT TO THE CURRENT DRIVEWAY TO WHAT THE TRAFFIC SIGNAL IN THAT DRIVEWAY OFF OF SAN BERNARDINO HAS TO BE REALIGNED SLIGHTLY TO LINE UP WITH THE TRAFFIC SIGNAL.
AND BECAUSE THREE OF THOSE TREES, THEY'RE OVER 12 INCHES IN DIAMETER ONTO YOUR CITY CODES.
THEY HAVE TO HAVE APPROVAL THE TREE REMOVAL PERMIT.
SO IT'S THREE TREES THAT WE'RE ASKING FOR THAT AUTHORITY FOR YOU TO APPROVE TONIGHT.
AND LASTLY, THE DEVELOPMENT AGREEMENT 21 0 1, UM, THAT TYPICALLY IS SOMETHING UP TO A CITY COUNCIL BY LAW, A PLANNING COMMISSION RECOMMENDS, BUT A CITY COUNCIL IS THE ONLY ONE EMPOWERED TO ADOPT BECAUSE DEVELOPMENT AGREEMENTS ARE ADOPTED BY ORDINANCE LIKE A ZONE CHANGE.
SO WITH ALL OF THAT, WE THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
WE THINK THIS IS VERY COMPACTED.
IT'S BEEN PUT TOGETHER VERY WELL.
YOUR STAFF HAS DONE AN EXCELLENT JOB.
ALL THE ENVIRONMENTAL DOCUMENTATION THAT YOU SAW WAS PEER REVIEWED BY THE CITY'S ENVIRONMENTAL CONSULTANTS.
SO IT WAS PREPARED BY ONE CONSULTANT.
IT WAS PEER REVIEWED AND APPROVED BY, UH, SOMAS WHO JUST SPOKE.
IT WAS REVIEWED AND APPROVED BY THE CITY STAFF.
IT WAS PRESUMABLY REVIEWED AND APPROVED BY THE CITY ATTORNEY.
SO YOUR ENVIRONMENTAL DOCUMENTS BEFORE YOU TONIGHT ARE FULLY ADEQUATE.
THEY FULLY COMPLY WITH THE CALIFORNIA ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY ACT.
WE'RE COMFORTABLE WITH THAT AS AN APPLICANT BECAUSE WE DEAL WITH THIS ALL THE TIME.
WE FEEL YOUR CITY DID A GREAT JOB.
YOU HAVE A GREAT PROJECT IN FRONT OF YOU TONIGHT, AND WE REALLY ENCOURAGE AND HOPE THAT YOU WILL SUPPORT US AND RECOMMEND APPROVAL.
SO THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR ALL THE TIME HERE TONIGHT.
I WENT ON LONGER THAN PROBABLY NEEDED, BUT WE JUST ARE VERY PLEASED TO BE HERE.
AND MAY I ANSWER YOUR QUESTIONS NOW? CORRECT? PARDON ME? IT'S TO MARIE.
I WAS THE ONE YOU CALLED UP ON THE EARLIER ONE.
I JUST WANTED TO MAKE SURE AFTER THE PUBLIC COMMENT PERIOD, IF I COULD HAVE THE COURTESY OF BEING ABLE TO COME BACK UP AND ADDRESS ANY CONCERNS, I'LL TAKE NOTES AND I'LL COME BACK UP AND ANSWER ALL THE QUESTIONS OF WHO SPEAKS THEN.
WELL, AT THIS TIME, WE'RE GOING TO ASK THE COMMISSION TO IF THEY HAVE ANY QUESTIONS FOR YOU.
WE'LL START WITH COMMISSIONER GUTIERREZ.
UM, NO, I DON'T, I DON'T HAVE ANY, UH, QUESTIONS, BUT I DO COMMAND, UH, GREENLAW PARTNERS, FURTHER COMMITMENT AND INVESTMENT BACK INTO OUR COMMUNITY AND THE JOBS AND ITS COMMITMENT.
YOU'RE GIVING BACK TO THE RESIDENTS OF WEST COVINA.
THANK YOU VERY MUCH, MR. WILLIAMS. YES, I DO HAVE A QUESTION.
UM, I NOTICED IN THE PRESENTATION THAT THERE WOULD BE A TOTAL OF 914 VEHICLES LEAVING THE SITE.
AND THAT IT WAS POINTED OUT DURING THE SEASON BETWEEN THANKSGIVING AND CHRISTMAS, THAT IT WOULD DOUBLE,
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WHAT WOULD THAT AMOUNT OF VEHICLES BE? HOW MANY IN A HARD TIME HEARING, I'M SORRY FOR THE SEASON BETWEEN THANKSGIVING AND CHRISTMAS, SINCE THE NUMBER OF VEHICLES WILL BE DOUBLED, WHAT WOULD THE AMOUNT OF VEHICLES BE DURING THAT TIME? EXCUSE ME.THE BEST ANSWER IS THE NUMBER OF VEHICLES ARE THE SAME MORE COME AND GO.
SO THERE ARE MORE TRUCKS THAT WOULD DO DELIVERIES PICK UP AND DELIVERIES.
THERE WOULD BE MORE OR GREATER SHIFTS OF THE ASSOCIATES WHO WORK THE NIGHTTIME.
I CAN PULL UP IN MY NOTES, WHAT'S IN THE ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT REPORT OR ENVIRONMENTAL MITIGATED NEGATIVE DECLARATION.
I THINK IT'S, UH, UPWARDS OF MAYBE A 20% INCREASE IN THAT FIVE WEEK PERIOD BETWEEN THANKSGIVING AND CHRISTMAS.
IT'S AN UNKNOWN IS THE PROBLEM.
SO IT'S HARD FOR US TO QUANTIFY BECAUSE LAST YEAR WE WERE IN THE FULL COVID SHUTDOWN.
AND SO MANY PEOPLE WERE ORDERING THIS YEAR.
IT'S PROBABLY GOING TO BE A LOWER DEMAND AT CHRISTMAS BECAUSE AMAZON LAST YEAR WAS DECLARED AN ESSENTIAL SERVICES BUSINESS, AND MOST RETAIL STORES HAD RESTRICTIONS.
WE WILL PROBABLY HAVE A MUCH BETTER UNDERSTANDING THIS HOLIDAY, BUT ALL THE NUMBERS THAT YOU SEE AND YOU'VE BEEN GIVEN TONIGHT FOR ENVIRONMENTAL PLANNING PURPOSES ARE THE MAXIMUMS. SO WHEN THE BUSINESS SAYS WE HAVE X NUMBER OF VANS, X NUMBER OF TRIPS, IT'S UP TO ON ANY GIVEN DAY, IT COULD BE LESS.
SO THOSE OPERATING CONDITIONS THAT WERE REFERENCED IN THE DEVELOPMENT AGREEMENT WILL SET THOSE CAPS AT THESE NUMBERS IN THE DOCUMENTS.
SO AMAZON CAN GO UP TO THOSE DURING THE HOLIDAY IN THE DEVELOPMENT AGREEMENT, IT'S ADDRESS THAT THEY CAN GO OVER IT SLIGHTLY.
AND, AND I CAN'T QUANTIFY WHAT THAT NUMBER IS IN MY MIND.
BUT IN THAT FOUR TO FIVE WEEK PERIOD, YES, IT'S PLANNED THAT THERE'LL BE MORE AND THAT'S WITHOUT SITTING DOWN LOOKING AT THE NUMBERS.
SO YOUR IMMEDIATE ANSWER, IF THAT HELPS.
ONE OTHER QUESTION I HAVE AT THIS PARTICULAR LOCATION IS AMAZON LOOKING AT USING ELECTRIC TRUCK, A TRACTOR TRAILERS, AS WELL AS ELECTRIC VANS, BUT WE'LL START WITH THE TRACK AND TR TRAILER, SORRY, SORRY ABOUT THAT.
UH, THE, THE TYPICAL AMAZON FREIGHT TRUCK RIGHT NOW, THEY CALL A LINE, HAUL TRUCK IS THE SINGLE CAB SINGLE TRAILER.
AND THAT'S WHAT THEY'RE USING FROM ALL OF THE FULFILLMENT CENTERS.
CHANGING AT ALL IN THE NEAR FUTURE, THE DELIVERY VANS ARE ALL THE, TO AXEL MERCEDES SPRINTER, FORD, AERO, STAR, WHATEVER, AND DODGE.
AMAZON IS MOVING TOWARDS ELECTRIC.
THEY ARE NOT READY TO START IN COMMIT TO FULL ELECTRIC.
AT THIS POINT, AMAZON IS HEAVILY INVESTED IN A NEW ELECTRIC VEHICLE STARTUP COMPANY CALLED RIVY AND AUTOMOTIVE REBELLION IS COMING ONLINE.
IT WILL BE PUBLIC THAT THEY ARE GOING TO START BUILDING AMAZON VANS, BANS FOR THE PUBLIC SUV SPORT, UTILITY VEHICLES AND PICKUP TRUCKS.
SO AMAZON IS GEARING TOWARDS THE FUTURE TO MOVE MORE INTO THE ELECTRIC VAN DELIVERY VAN BUSINESS.
THEY'RE NOT PREPARED YET ON THIS SITE BECAUSE THIS SITE DOES NOT HAVE ENOUGH ELECTRIC POWER THAT HAS BEEN SENT TO THE SITE TO HANDLE ALL OF THE CHARGING STATIONS.
THERE ARE A SIGNIFICANT NUMBER ON THE SITE PLAN IN THE EMPLOYEE PARKING LOT RIGHT NOW, BUT PROBABLY IN THE NEXT FIVE YEARS, THERE'S GOING TO BE A GREATER SHIFT IN AMAZON.
COMPANY-WIDE MORE TOWARDS ELECTRIC, AS FAR AS THE, UH, THE FREIGHT TRUCKS.
I'M NOT AWARE YET THAT ANY OF THEM ARE REALLY VIABLE ON THE HIGHWAYS FOR FREIGHT HAULING KENWORTH AND FREIGHTLINER ARE THE TWO MAJOR MANUFACTURERS OF THE CABS.
AND I KNOW THERE'S SOME THAT ARE IN EXPERIMENTAL STAGES, BUT I DON'T KNOW BEYOND THAT.
AND AMAZON HAS CERTAIN PROPRIETARY THINGS THAT THEY DON'T TELL A GUY LIKE ME PERSONALLY, BUT THAT'S THE BEST UNDERSTANDING THEIR SUSTAINABILITY SLIDE I HAD PUT UP HERE, BUT, UM, THEY, YOU'RE MAKING LONGER TERM COMMITMENTS THAT SORRY WITH LONG-TERM CORPORATE COMMITMENTS BEST THEY CAN ON REDUCING GREENHOUSE GASES AND OKAY.
THEIR CLIMATE PLEDGE, UH, THE RENEWABLE ENERGY BY 2025, THAT'S THEIR GOAL.
AND THAT IS ELECTRIC, UH, THE SHIPMENTS, UM, ZERO CARBON BY 2030.
SO THAT GIVES YOU AN IDEA OF THEIR GOALS CORPORATE WIDE.
AND THAT WAS THE SLIDE THAT THEY GAVE US AS WELL TO COMMIT TO.
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IF YOU ASKED ME, CAN THAT BE CONDITIONED AS SUCH RIGHT NOW? NOT AT THIS POINT IN TIME, THEY, THEY CAN'T THAT AS A BUSINESS OPERATING CONDITION, BUT THE WAY THEIR BUSINESSES OPERATED TODAY, THEY STILL ARE UNDER THE THRESHOLD OF ANY SIGNIFICANT IMPACTS ON AIR QUALITY, TRAFFIC OR NOISE, WHICH ARE THE BIG THREE.UM, BECAUSE AS BIG AS THIS SITE LOOKS, AND IT SOUNDS REALLY BIG AND MONSTROUS, IT'S NOT THERE.
THERE REALLY IS NOT A WHOLE LOT OF TRAFFIC FROM THIS SITE.
IT HAS THE APPEARANCE BECAUSE OF THE PARKING.
BUT AS I MENTIONED, MANY OF THESE VEHICLES ARE NOT USED EVERY DAY.
IT'S LIKE A LARGE PARKING LOT WHERE EACH DAY DRIVERS COME IN AND TAKE A FEW AND GO USE THEM.
BUT IT'S INTIMIDATING LOOKING TO SOME CITIES.
THIS IS THE SMALLEST, UH, DELIVERY STATION I'VE WORKED ON MOST ARE DOUBLE THE SIZE.
AND TWO THAT I WORKED ON UP IN BAKERSFIELD, THEY JUST WELCOMED THE MINUTE WE WALKED IN THE DOOR, I MEAN, IT'S JOBS.
AND THOSE WERE REPLACEMENTS FOR, UH, HOME DEPOTS, KMART RETAIL STORES THAT HAD FAILED.
SO IT'S MANY CITIES OUT THERE JUST BEEN POUNDING OUR DOOR DOWN, PALMDALE OTHERS.
AND IS THERE ANY OTHERS? ACTUALLY, I DO HAVE ONE.
I'M JUST WANTING TO SEE IF YOU CAN HELP ME EXPLAIN IN TURN THROUGH THE ENTRYWAY ON SAN BERNARDINO.
CAN YOU, CAN YOU BRING UP THAT MAP AGAIN? AND THEN IF YOU CAN ACTUALLY EXPLAIN THAT PORTION AND ALSO THE THIRD ONE IS GOING OUT TOWARDS, UM, PADILLA, IS THAT CORRECT? SO CAN YOU EXPLAIN, LIKE HOW MUCH OF A TRAFFIC? WELL, IT GOES THROUGH THE, AND WHAT TYPE OF A CAR THAT I KNOW MAJORITY WILL BE ON THE WEST SIDE.
BECAUSE SOME WORD USE A PHYSICAL, OKAY.
USE USING THIS SITE PLAN, LET'S START WITH SAME SAN BERNARDINO ROADS.
SO EAST TO WEST TRUCKS WOULD COME FROM AZUSA.
WESTBOUND IS ON SAN BERNARDINO ROAD.
AND THE ONLY POINT OF ENTRY IS RIGHT AT CUTTER WAY WHERE THE NEW TRAFFIC SIGNAL WOULD BE.
SO THEY'D TURN LEFT, GO INTO THE PROJECT, UH, BACK IN AND THEN DRIVE OUT AND GO RIGHT BACK OUT TO AZUSA, NO OTHER DIRECTION.
THEY DO NOT USE THE OTHER TWO DRIVEWAYS ON SAN BERNARDINO ROAD, THE EASTERLY ONE OR THE MIDDLE ONE.
AND WHAT ARE THESE TWO USED FOR? THE MIDDLE ONE IS AN EXIT ONLY AS THE VANS COME OUT OF THE BUILDING.
IT'S A DEDICATED RIGHT OUT TO THE STREET.
THE BANDS EITHER TURN EAST AND GO TO WHEREVER OR TO THE WEST.
THE EASTERLY DRIVEWAY IS IT EXHILARATE DRIVEWAY FOR VANS RETURNING TO THE SITE IF NEED BE AS WELL AS THE FOUR ON VIDEO.
SO IT'S A UNIVERSAL ONE, BUT THE VANS CAN ALSO COME IN AT THE WESTERLY SIDE.
SO VANS CAN COME BACK EASTBOUND ATTORNEY IN HERE TO GO DOWN AND ENTER THIS AREA.
THEY CAN COME IN THIS DRIVEWAY AND PARK HERE.
SO IT DEPENDS UPON WHERE THE VAN IS PARKED AND STORED IS TO PROBABLY WHERE THE DRIVER'S GOING TO REENTER THE SITE.
SO IT DISPERSED AROUND THE SITE COMPLETELY.
THEY HAVING THE VARIOUS DRIVEWAYS.
SO, SO THE GREEN LINE TOWARD THE EAST SIDE OF THE PROPERTY, NOT NECESSARILY THE, ALL THE VANS GOING TO GO DIRECTLY, ALL THAT LOCATION, YOU'RE SAYING IT'S C IT'S APPEAR LIKE 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, OR EIGHT ENTRYWAY FOR THE RETURNING VAN.
ALL OF THE DRIVEWAYS CAN BE USED FOR THE RETURNING VANS, EXCEPT THE DEPARTURE THAT'S DEDICATED IN THE MIDDLE.
THE VANS ALSO RETURN RANDOMLY AT THE END OF THE DAY.
SO AS A DRIVER, IF A DRIVER COMES FROM THE WEST, IT MAY TURN IN HERE IMMEDIATELY IN PARK IN THIS AREA, OR ACTUALLY IN HERE, BECAUSE MOST OF THE DRIVERS PARK THEIR CARS HERE.
BUT MIKE TURNING HERE, SORRY, THERE IS, IT HAS TO TURN IT HERE.
THERE'S A MEDIAN BREAK ON VIDEO.
SO THE EASTBOUND COULD TURN LEFT INTO THE SITE ARC HERE COULD PARK IN HERE GOING THE OPPOSITE DIRECTION AGAIN, ENTERING HERE.
WHAT ARE THESE COLORS FOR? IN REALITY, THE COLORS WERE MORE GENERATED FOR THE ENGINEERS TO LOOK AT THE GEOMETRICS OF HOW THIS WOULD FLOW.
THIS GREEN LINE DOES NOT IN ANY WAY MEAN THAT ALL VANS COMING
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BACK TO THE SITE, GO IN HERE.THEY DID THIS TO SHOW FOR FIRE DEPARTMENT, OTHER FLOW THAT IT CAN FLOW THIS DIRECTION.
AND THEN AFTER STAGING OUTSIDE, THEY GO IN WELL, WHEN THEY RETURN, THEY DON'T GO BACK THROUGH HERE.
THEY RETURNED TO THE PARKING LOT TO THEIR SPACES.
SO IT'S A DESCRIPTION SHOWING A FLOW PATTERN HERE.
NOW THEY CAN COME IN THIS DRIVEWAY AND FLOW UP THIS DIRECTION.
IF THEY WISH THEY CAN GO INTO THESE DRIVE AISLES.
SO IT HAS ALL THE DIFFERENT, UH, USES ON THE SITE FOR ACCESS AGAIN ON THIS SIDE, ALL THE EMPLOYEES PARK IN THIS AREA THAT WORK IN THE BUILDING.
SO AT NIGHTTIME, UH, AFTER 10, O'CLOCK, EVERYTHING THAT'S IN THE LAVENDER COLOR IS SHUT DOWN.
IT'S LOCKED DOWN FOR THE NIGHT.
THERE'S NO ONE ON THIS PROPERTY.
THAT'S GOING TO BE OUTSIDE IN ANY OF THIS AREA.
IN FACT BY SEVEN, MOST OF THE VANS WILL BE BACK, BUT THE LAST FANS HAVE TO RETURN BY 10 IT'S SHUT DOWN THE OPERATION OF THE BUILDING.
THEN ALL DOORS ARE CLOSED AND EVERYBODY'S WORKING INSIDE SORTING FOR THE NEXT DAY.
SO THE SORTATION ASSOCIATES ARE PARKING STRICTLY IN THIS AREA.
AS THE TRUCKS COME IN IN THE NIGHT, THEY OFFLOAD AND THEN THEY SORT IT LINE THEM UP INSIDE ON RACKS.
AND IN THE MORNING AT NINE 30, WHEN THE VAN DRIVERS SHOW UP, THEN AS THEY'RE RELEASED TO COME IN THE BUILDING, THEY DON'T DEPART FROM THIS PROPERTY UNTIL 10:00 AM.
SO NO VAN LEAVES UNTIL 10 IN THE MORNING.
THEY HAVE TO BE BACK BY 10 AT NIGHT.
AND THE ASSOCIATES THAT WORK HERE, ALL COME AND GO THROUGH THIS DRIVEWAY AND THEY HAVE THIS SECURE, PROTECTED AREA.
WHAT ABOUT THE LONG HAUL TRUCKS? WHERE DO THEY ENTER LONG HAUL TRUCKS, THE LARGE TRUCKS, RIGHT? YOU SEE THE RED PATH OR THE LONG HAUL TRUCKS ONLY.
SO THEY HAVE TO COME FROM AZUSA DOWN.
SAN BERNARDINO LEFT TURN ENDS BY WAY OF THE NEW SIGNAL THEY DRIVE DOWN INTO HERE.
THEY BACK TO THE DOCK AFTER THE OFFLOAD THEY LEAVE.
SO THAT'S WHY THE DOCK HAS THE 12 FOOT WALL.
THEY COMPLETELY WILL BLOCK THEIR VIEW FROM ANYBODY SOUTH OF BDO, BLOCK THEIR VIEW, BLOCK THE SOUND.
THERE'S ANOTHER 12 FOOT WALL ON THAT SIDE OF THE DOCK THAT HOLDS SOUND IN FROM ANY OTHER DIRECTION.
SO IT'S A VERY ISOLATED WALLED IN DOCK.
IT HAS, I THINK IT'S A TOTAL OF EIGHT DOCS.
ONE OF THOSE IS PRIMARILY FOR THE TRUCK THAT PICKS UP RECYCLED MATERIALS, BUT IT DOESN'T MEAN THEY'RE GOING TO BE FULL ALL THE TIME.
THERE COULD BE A SECOND ONE COME AND GO.
BUT EIGHT DOCS IS NOT HUGE FOR AN INDUSTRIAL BUILDING OF THIS SIZE.
THERE CURRENTLY EXISTS THREE DOCS THAT ARE THERE FROM THE OLD INDUSTRIAL DAYS.
THIS IS THE ACTUAL LOADING DOCK TO THAT BUILDING THE BUILDING, THE PROPERTY TOPOGRAPHY DROPS OFF, OR THESE ARE RAISED DOCKS IN THE BUILDING RIGHT NOW IN THIS AREA.
THE CHURCH, AGAIN, CLOSED OFF THE FRONT, NO LONGER WANTED THE VIEW FROM SAN BERNARDINO ROAD AND CREATED THIS ENTRY WITH THE BIG STEPS BACK IN HERE.
AND THE CHILDREN'S PLAY AREA HERE.
THIS WILL NO LONGER BE THE CASE.
THE ENTRY WILL BE IN THE FRONT AS FAR AS THE AESTHETICS GO, BUT ACTUAL DOORS ARE RIGHT HERE IN THIS AREA.
THAT'S WHERE ALL THE EMPLOYEES WOULD ENTER THE BANS ONLY UNDER THE BUILDING RIGHT THERE THROUGH THIS ROLL-UP DOOR.
AND THE ONLY EXIT IN THAT AREA THROUGH TRUE ROLL-UP DOORS, AS THEY'RE RELEASED IN 20 OR 30 MINUTE INTERVALS AGAIN, TO MAKE SURE THEY DON'T JUST FLOOD THE STREETS IN THE AREA.
IT'S A VERY TECHNOLOGY DRIVEN BUSINESS WHERE THEY KNOW EVERY DAY, HOW MANY PACKAGES THEY HAVE, WHERE THEY'RE GOING, WHICH VAN THEY SHOULD BE GIVEN TO.
AND THEN THEY ROUTE THE VANS FOR THEM.
SO THE VAN KNOWS EXACTLY WHERE IT'S GOING AND WHERE IT'LL DRILL.
EXCUSE ME, DELIVERING COMEBACK.
DO YOU HAVE ANYTHING ELSE? UM, THANK YOU.
THAT REALLY HELPED ANSWER A LOT OF THE QUESTIONS, UH, QUESTIONS THAT I HAVE.
AND I'M GLAD TO HEAR THAT WE GOT IN THE POEPLE AREA, B FROM 10 AT NIGHT TO 10 IN THE MORNING.
THERE'S REALLY NO DRIVING ACTIVITY PER SE.
THERE THERE'S NO ONE ON THE OUTSIDE OF THIS BUILDING AFTER 10 O'CLOCK AT NIGHT OR BEFORE SEVEN IN THE MORNING, UH, UNTIL THE TRUCK START COMING IN, IN THE EMPLOYEE AREA, IN THE NIGHTTIME, BUT THE VANS AGAIN, DON'T DEPART.
WELL, I'M TAKING IT BACK IN THE LAVENDER AREA.
NO VAN DRIVER SHOWS UP BEFORE NINE.
SO NO VAN DRIVER SHOWS UP BEFORE NINE.
THE VAN START DEPARTING AT 10 BECAUSE AGAIN, THE VAN DRIVERS, WE WANT THEM TO ARRIVE OUTSIDE OF THE MORNING, TRAFFIC PEAK OF 7:00 AM TO 9:00 AM.
SO THEY WILL COME IN ON SITE AFTER EVERYBODY ELSE HAS GONE TO WORK.
SO THE BIG TRUCK, THE 14 BIG, THE 14 BIG TRUCK THAT IS COMING TO DOCK AND UNLOAD, THAT WILL BE SICK, I GUESS, I SUPPOSE NOT ALL EIGHT OF THEM COMING OUT AT THE SAME TIME, I WOULD ASSUME CORRECT.
IN THE DAY TIME THAT WE'RE USING RIGHT NOW, STATISTICALLY FOUR WOULD BE COMING IN HERE FROM SEVEN IN THE MORNING
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TO SEVEN AT NIGHT.IT COULD BE MORE THAT COULD SHIFT THE BALANCE OF 10 A DAY WOULD COME IN FROM 7:00 PM TO 7:00 AM, BUT IT AVERAGES ONE OVER AN HOUR.
A PIECE WHEN YOU START LOOKING AT 10 TRUCKS IN A 12 HOUR PERIOD.
SO YOU'RE TALKING ONE TRUCK AN HOUR, ROUGHLY COMING DOWN THE STREET AND COMING INTO THE PROPERTY ON A TRUCK ROUTE THAT CURRENTLY HAS A FAIRLY HIGH TRUCK TRAFFIC VOLUME.
IN FACT, THE TRAFFIC STUDY EVEN SHOWS THE AMOUNT OF TRUCKS THAT TRAVERSE THIS AREA BECAUSE IT'S REGIONAL TRAFFIC GOING THROUGH ON A TRUCK, ROUTE 10 MORE TRUCKS, WON'T EVEN BE NOTICED TO A GREAT DEGREE.
WHEN YOU LOOK AT TOTAL TRAFFIC VOLUME, YES, RESIDENTS ACROSS THE STREET MIGHT SEE THEM IF THEY'RE UP IN THE MIDDLE OF THE NIGHT, BUT THEY SHOULD BE QUIET.
THERE'LL BE DECELERATING TO THIS POINT AND TURN IN WHEN THEY TURN OUT, THEY'RE GOING AGAIN EASTBOUND ON THE SOUTH SIDE OF THE STREET, AWAY FROM THE HOMES.
SO WE TRIED OUR BEST POSSIBLE TO DECIDE THIS IN A WAY THAT HAS THE LEAST IMPACTS ON ANYBODY LIVING IN THE AREA.
WE'VE SPOKEN TO THE CITY OF COVINA CITY MANAGER, ASSISTANT MANAGER, THEY'VE REVIEWED THE PLANS.
THEY PROVIDED THEIR INPUT TO THE CITY STAFF.
SO WE SEEM TO ALL BE WORKING TOGETHER AND GOING FORWARD.
AND WE THINK IT'S A GOOD PROJECT.
THANK YOU FOR EXPLAINING ALL THAT.
UM, I REALLY APPRECIATE THE FACT THAT WE GARDENED THE PURPLE AREA.
UM, I UNDERSTAND THAT A LOT OF THE VAN DELIVERY VAN WILL BE PARKING THERE AND THAT, I JUST WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT THE TIME OF MOVEMENT OF THOSE VANS IS BETWEEN 10, BASICALLY 10 AT NIGHT.
TIME IS THE LAST TIME THAT THEY COME ON AND 10 IN THE MORNING IS WHEN THEY START MOVING OUT.
YES, THE DISPATCHING CANNOT START UNTIL 10:00 AM.
SO THEY WILL NOT LEAVE THAT BUILDING UNTIL 10:00 AM.
THE DRIVERS WILL SHOW UP AROUND THE NINE TO NINE 15 RANGE, AND THEN THEY ARE LED IN, IN GROUPS AND THEY'RE PACKED, OR I'M SORRY, THEY ARE FILLED IN THIS GROUP.
MAYBE THERE'S TWO GROUPS IN THERE AT THE SAME TIME.
IT MAY ONLY BE ONE IN THE MORNING.
WE DON'T KNOW, BUT AFTER THEY'RE FILLED, THEN THEY HAVE ALL THESE DISPATCH EMPLOYEES AND THEY HAVE A LIGHT SIGNALING SYSTEM ON THE CEILING THAT LITERALLY THEN TELLS THEM WHEN TO GO.
AND IT SENDS THEM OUT IN WAVES.
SO THEY DON'T OVERLOAD THE STREETS.
UM, SINCE THIS IS A, A LAST MILE DELIVERY STATION, ARE THERE PLANS OR IS IT ANTICIPATED THAT THIS SITE WILL EVER BE USED FOR, UH, A STARTING OFF POINT FOR DRONE DELIVERY SERVICE? NO, THAT'S A GOOD QUESTION.
I ABSOLUTELY HAVE NEVER HEARD OF THAT DISCUSSED IN ANY AMAZON THAT I'VE WORKED ON, I'VE WORKED ON FIVE OR SIX.
AMAZON'S NEVER DISCUSSED ANY DRONE DELIVERIES OF ANY KIND OUT OF ANY OF THEIR FACILITIES I'VE SEEN.
SO THIS SITE IT'S NEVER BEEN DISCUSSED.
UM, I DOUBT THEY WOULD EVEN WANT TO INCORPORATE IT IN A RESIDENTIAL AREA.
WHAT WOULD IT BE A PROBLEM TO INCLUDE, INCLUDE THAT PROHIBITION IN THE DEVELOPMENT AGREEMENT? I THINK IT'D PROBABLY BE REASONABLE IF THAT'S WHAT YOU FEEL.
UM, UM, WITH REGARD TO EMPLOYEES, YOU KNOW, ULTIMATELY AMAZON AND, AND, AND OTHER LARGE MULTINATIONAL CORPORATIONS ARE TAKING SIGNIFICANT STEPS TOWARD AUTOMATION OF SERVICES.
UM, MY QUESTION IS WITH REGARD TO THE NUMBER OF EMPLOYEES THAT ARE GOING TO BE HIRED FOR THIS, UH, HOW MANY OF THEM ARE GOING TO STAY ON AND FOR, FOR A, AN EXTENDED PERIOD OF TIME AND, AND WHAT COMMITMENT WILL AMAZON MAKE TO ACTUALLY HIRE ACTUAL PEOPLE TO BE THEIR EMPLOYEES.
AND IS THAT SOMETHING THAT YOU'RE WILLING TO COMMIT TO IN A DEVELOPMENT AGREEMENT? UH, VERY GOOD QUESTION.
ALL OF THE AMAZONS I'VE WORKED ON IT BASICALLY BEEN DESIGNED AROUND A CONVEYOR BELT SYSTEM.
THIS IS A THREE OR FOUR BELTS.
IF I HAD THE FLOOR PLAN UP, YOU CAN SEE THE BELTS, BUT IT IS NOT DESIGNED AT ALL WITH ANY AUTOMATION.
AS FAR AS SOUTH LOADING IN ANY WAY, IT IS A HUMAN LABOR TYPE DESIGN OR HUMAN LABOR OFFLOADS THE TRUCKS.
THEY THEN PUT THEM ON THE ONE OF FOUR BELTS, THE CONVEYOR BELTS, THEY FOR CONVEYOR BOATS GO TO DIFFERENT AREAS OF THE ROOM AND THE SORTERS AT THAT POINT.
SO IT'S AS THE INITIAL, STARTING OFF THE TRUCK, THE NEXT ORDER SORT DOWN INTO POUCHES THAT GO INTO THE VANS.
UM, THE LABOR, UH, FOR THIS AGAIN IS 250 JOBS.
IF YOU LOOK AT THE, THE BREAK ROOM OR THE LUNCH ROOM, IT'S SIGNIFICANT IN SIZE.
SO THIS IS DESIGNED TO ACCOMMODATE, UH, MANY EMPLOYEES INSIDE ON NIGHT SHIFTS THAT HAS ALL THE AMENITIES THAT THE WOULD WANT TO HAVE.
SO WE'VE BEEN TOLD THAT THERE'S NO PLAN FOR AUTOMATION
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THERE, NO AUTOMATIC ARMS OR ANYTHING ELSE LIKE THAT, WHAT ROBOTICS, LIKE I JUST HEARD THE TERM, RIGHT.UH, OBVIOUSLY, YOU KNOW, SELF-DRIVING VEHICLES ARE CERTAINLY ON THE HORIZON HERE.
I THINK THAT'S KIND OF A GIVEN, UM, AND THERE'S VARIOUS, UH, THERE ARE VARIOUS DRONE DELIVERY SERVICES ALREADY IN PLACE WHERE THEY'RE NOT JUST TALKING ABOUT IN THE AIR, ON THE SIDEWALK AND IN THE STREET THAT ARE BEING IMPLEMENTED.
THAT'S SOMETHING THAT, THAT WE SHOULD EXPECT TO SEE.
I DO NOT HAVE THE ANSWERS TO THAT.
WE HAVE NEVER BEEN TOLD, UM, BY AMAZON, THEY HAD ANY INTEREST IN DOING A LOCAL DRONE, THIS, THE GROUND LEVEL, LIKE WE SEE IN THE PIZZA COMMERCIALS, WHATEVER, NOT HEARD ANY OF THAT.
I UNDERSTAND IT'S, IT'S ONE OF THOSE THINGS WHERE I I'M, I'M LOOKING AT THIS FROM THE PERSPECTIVE OF, YOU KNOW, WE'RE SAYING THAT THERE'S JOBS COMING IN, YOU KNOW, SUPPOSEDLY $15 AN HOUR MINIMUM, YOU KNOW, OBVIOUSLY IF YOU DO THE MATH ON THAT, IT'S $30,200.
AND FRANKLY, THE AVERAGE HOUSEHOLD INCOME IN WEST COVINA IS $83,000.
SO, UM, YOU KNOW, IT'S NOT LIKE PEOPLE WITH THOSE JOBS ARE GOING TO BUYING, THEY STILL LIVE IN OUR CITY, RIGHT.
WHICH IS, WHICH IS UNFORTUNATE.
AND SO I, I WANTED TO HEAR WHETHER OR NOT YOU GUYS HAVE ANY PLANS TO ASSIST ASSIST WEST COVINA RESIDENTS.
UM, PARTICULARLY THOSE THAT ARE, THAT ARE HIRED INTO, INTO THOSE JOBS FIND HOUSING IN THEIR AREA.
UH, THE, THE $15 AN HOUR COMMITMENT IS THE MINIMUM, AND THERE ARE VARIOUS LEVELS OF SUPERVISION AS WELL.
SO THERE ARE CAREER ADVANCEMENTS WITHIN THE ORGANIZATION ON THE SITE.
UM, I AM NOT PRIVY TO ALL THE PAY SCALES WITHIN THE BUSINESS.
UM, AS FAR AS ASSISTING WITH ANY HOUSING, ANYTHING ALONG THAT LINE OF BENEFIT, I'M NOT AWARE OF ANY, UH, TO MY KNOWLEDGE, WE ARE AWARE THAT THEY HAVE, UM, THEY SAY GOOD QUALITY MEDICAL BENEFITS, INSURANCE BENEFITS.
THE DIFFERENCE IN THIS CASE, BEING THE DEVELOPER GREENLAW PARTNERS, BUYS BILLS AND LEASES TO AMAZON.
SO IN 10 YEARS, IF TECHNOLOGY IS SOMETHING DIFFERENT, THEY DON'T WISH TO BE HERE.
THAT'S WHY THE DEVELOPMENT AGREEMENT IS A 10 YEAR WINDOW FRAME FOR COMPENSATING THE CITY.
BUT I MUCH OF THEIR BUSINESS ALSO, I HAVE TO SAY IS PROPRIETARY IN NATURE.
THEY JUST DON'T LIKE TO DISCUSS A LOT OF THEIR INTERNAL BUSINESS OPERATIONS, BUT THEY COMMITTED TO TALKING ABOUT, UM, YOU KNOW, A MINIMUM WAGE THAT'S GREATER THAN, YOU KNOW, THE TYPICAL, FAST FOOD.
AND I'M SURE, YOU KNOW, THEY HAVE HIGHER LEVELS OF INSIDE AND OTHERS THAT ARE COMPENSATED BECAUSE THE ASSOCIATE IS THE LOWEST LEVEL ON THE INSIDE, IN THE SORTING OPERATION.
THEN THEY HAVE SUPERVISORS GOING UP FROM THERE.
AND I DON'T WANT TO SAY SOMETHING THAT I DON'T REALLY KNOW THE ANSWER TO.
I TOTALLY, UM, W W WITH REGARD TO, WITH REGARD TO THE SALES TAX REPLACEMENT AGREEMENT, WHICH YOU HAD MENTIONED THERE AS BEING 10 YEARS, UM, IN THE EVENT THAT AMAZON DOES DECIDES TO RENEW, IS THERE ANY REASON WHY THAT, THAT AGREEMENT CANNOT BE EXTENDED OR THE ADDITIONAL PERIOD OF TIME? ABSOLUTELY NOT.
SHOULD, SHOULD NOT BE, OR SHOULD THAT BE INCLUDED IN THE DEVELOPMENT AGREEMENT MOVING FORWARD? UM, IT ABSOLUTELY CAN BE EXTENDED.
IT COULD ALSO BE RENEGOTIATED.
IT BECOMES AN OPEN END, JUST LIKE A LEASE.
SO IF AMAZON CHOOSES TO STAY, UM, I, YOU KNOW, MAYBE THAT'S A QUESTION THAT COULD BE REFERRED TO YOUR ASSISTANT CITY ATTORNEY HERE, AS FAR AS THE PARTICULARS.
I DON'T RECALL THE TERMINATION PROVISIONS AS FAR AS THEIR RIGHTS TO EXTEND, BUT, UM, OUR EXPERTS OVER HERE TO MY RIGHT.
UM, AND THEN, UH, WITH REGARD TO, UM, THE IT'S GOING TO BE THE UPPER, I GUESS RIGHT-HAND CORNER OF THE PROJECT SITE, UM, WHERE THERE IS A, UM, UH, AN EXIT ROUTE, NOT, NOT FROM THE BUILDING, BUT THE UPPER RIGHT-HAND CORNER THAT CAN, CAN VEHICLES TURN LEFT FROM SAN BERNARDINO ROAD, UH, INTO THE FACILITY INTO THAT LOT, OR ARE THEY ONLY TURNING RIGHT THERE? THE INTENT IS THAT THEY WOULD TURN RIGHT IN GOING WESTBOUND.
SO, SO IF THEY'RE, IF THEY'RE TRAVELING EASTBOUND TWO WESTBOUND, WOULD THEY BE ABLE TO MAKE A LEFT INTO THE PARKING LOT?
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THERE? MY UNDERSTANDING THEY COULD, UH, THE DESIGN OF THAT STREET WOULD HAVE A DOUBLE BROKEN YELLOW LINE THAT HAS THE CENTER LANE FOR LEFT TURNS.SO WHEN THE VEHICLE COMES OUT, IT CAN HAVE A SAFE REFUGE BEFORE IT ENTERS THE LANES IN A WESTBOUND DIRECTION.
SO YES, MY UNDERSTANDING THEY COULD COME IN THERE, THE LIKELIHOOD IS IT WOULD ONLY BE A VAN THAT'S PROBABLY PARKED IN THAT UPPER PART OF THE PROPERTY VERSUS BADILLO.
MY, MY CONCERN WITH THAT IS THAT IF YOU HAVE VEHICLES COMING ZEUS, WHICH IS THE TRUCK ROUTE, THAT'S LIKELY HOW THEY'RE GOING TO COME TO TYPICALLY, SINCE YOU WANT THE SAN BERNARDINO ADDRESS, AS A CONCERN THAT I SEE THERE IS THAT YOU'RE GOING TO HAVE A STACKING QUEUE OR PEOPLE WANTING TO TURN IN THEIR, WITH THEIR VANS.
AND IT'S JUST GOING TO CAUSE A GREAT DEAL OF BACKUP AND POTENTIALLY IMPACT THE, UH, THE HOUSING THAT'S IMMEDIATELY ADJACENT TO THE COMMISSIONER LEWIS.
MAYBE I CAN ANSWER THAT THIS IS JANA WITH TRAFFIC.
THAT DRIVEWAY HAS BEEN RIGHT TURN IN, RIGHT.
THAT'S WHY THEY SAID THERE'D BE SIGNAGE THAT SAYS NO LEFT TURN IN.
AND THEY CAN'T MAKE A LEFT TURN OUT EITHER.
AND THEN, UM, AND THEN LASTLY, UM, I WANTED TO ASK REGARDING THE, UH, THE SCHOOL DISTRICT APPRENTICESHIP INTERNSHIP PROGRAM.
WHAT IS, WHAT IS THAT GOING TO ENTAIL? I, I READ IT IN THE PORT, BUT I, FOR THE LIFE OF ME, I COULDN'T FIND IT IN THE, UH, IN THE ACTUAL AGREEMENT.
I DON'T KNOW IF I SKIPPED OVER IT.
UM, IT'S INTENDED PRIMARILY HIGH SCHOOL AGE.
IT COULD BE COLLEGE AGE, BUT INTERNSHIPS TRAINING PROGRAMS THAT, UH, TRYING TO LOOK AT WAYS TO HELP REPLACE THE SOCIAL SERVICES THAT THE CHURCH PROVIDES.
BECAUSE WITH THE CHURCH TO PARTYING THIS SITE, AMAZON WOULD LIKE TO CONTRIBUTE TO THE COMMUNITY IN A WAY THAT SOCIALLY IS RESPONSIBLE.
SO THAT WAS ONE OF THE SUGGESTED IDEAS TO HELP, YOU KNOW, GENERATE INTEREST IN FUTURE JOBS AND CAREERS FOR THOSE YOUNG PEOPLE THAT MAY NOT GO TO COLLEGE THAT MAY WISH TO GO INTO THE LABOR FORCE.
SO IT'S GEARED TOWARDS FOCUS ON THE SCHOOL DISTRICT IN THE AREA AND HELP THOSE.
I DON'T HAVE ANY FURTHER DETAILS THAN THAT.
I THINK IT'S THE CONDITIONS BASICALLY TO CREATE THE PROGRAM IN COOPERATION WITH THE DISTRICT AND GO FROM THERE.
SO YOU MADE MENTION OF OTHER SITES THAT YOU HELPED TO FACILITATE OTHER OTHER SITES THAT YOU HELPED TO DEVELOP AND WHERE THOSE SITES EQUAL IN SIZE, LARGER, SMALLER THEY'RE COMPARABLE.
MOST SITES THAT I HAVE WORKED ON WERE LARGER, BUT I'D SAY THE BUILDINGS ARE A LOT LARGER.
THIS IS ONE OF THE SMALLER AMAZON BUILDINGS.
THE SITE THOUGH, THE PARKING AREA IS LARGER AND THAT'S WHY THEY HAVE THE LUXURY OF THE VAN DRIVERS BEING ABLE TO PARK ON THEIR OWN.
SOME OF THE SITES SAY THEY DON'T HAVE A GREAT LUXURY OF THAT AMOUNT OF PARKING SPACE.
UM, BUT YOU KNOW, IT'S UP FOR SALE AS IT IS AMAZON AND GREENLAND WOULD PREFER NOT TO LEAVE PART OF IT UNIMPROVED PLUS, YOU KNOW, IT'S, THEY WANT TO MAKE IT NICE.
SO IT'S GOING TO ALL BE ASPHALTED AGAIN, RE-ASK FAULTED, RESTRIPED NEW LANDSCAPING PUT THROUGHOUT THE PARKING LOT, ISLANDS, NEW PARKING, LOT LIGHTING TO REALLY IMPROVE IT, BUT NOT TOUCH THE LANDSCAPING ALONG THE DEAL.
THAT'S ALREADY MATURE AND VERY ATTRACTIVE OR ALONG THE EAST PROPERTY LINE.
THAT'S VERY MATURE AND ATTRACTIVE.
SO IT'S SUPPLEMENTING THE MIDDLE OF THE PROPERTY, BUT THEY RANGE IN SIZE ALL OVER.
IT'S JUST WHATEVER COMES ON THE MARKET, MOST, ALL OF THESE ARE NOT BEING BUILT FROM THE GROUND UP.
THEY ARE REUSE OF OLDER INDUSTRIAL PROPERTIES THAT I'VE SEEN.
SO YOU DON'T ANTICIPATE ANY ADVERSE, UH, VALUE DROPPING IN ANY OF THE NEIGHBORHOOD HOMES.
THIS, YOU KNOW, MY BACKGROUND, I'VE BEEN A CITY MANAGER, A DEPUTY CITY MANAGER, COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT DIRECTOR IN MANY CITIES.
AND WHEN YOU HAVE A DETERIORATED INDUSTRIAL BUILDING, WHICH THIS IS GOING TO LOOK LIKE WHEN THE CHURCH MOVES OUT, THAT'S NOT POSITIVE FOR YOUR COMMUNITY.
WHAT'S VERY POSITIVE IS TO REUSE IT.
NOW, IN THIS CASE, WE'RE ASKING THEM FOR AN INDUSTRIAL ZONING, THIS IS NOT HEAVY INDUSTRIAL.
THIS IS NOT A PLANT THAT'S GOING TO PRODUCE PAINT VAPORS OR SAWDUST, OR IT'S NOT GOING TO BE MANUFACTURING.
ANYTHING IT'S ABOUT THE CLEANEST TYPE OF INDUSTRIAL USE.
YOU COULD HAVE A VERY CLEAN, SMOOTH OPERATION THAT QUITE FRANKLY, MOST PEOPLE IN THE COMMUNITY ARE INVESTED IN BY BEING MEMBERS
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AND PURCHASING ONLINE.AND WE'RE NOT JUST TALKING ABOUT CITIZENS.
WE'RE TALKING ABOUT BUSINESSES, MANY, MANY OF THE BUSINESSES IN YOUR CITY AND SURROUNDING THEY BUY THEIR SUPPLIES.
THEY HAVE THEIR ONLINE BUSINESS, A WEBSITE THROUGH AMAZON.
SO IT'S SUPPORTIVE OF ALL EFFORTS OF THE COMMUNITY.
UM, I DON'T SEE THIS AT ALL, BEING ONE THAT WOULD AFFECT VALUES.
I WORKED ON ONE IN THE CITY OF MISSION VA HILL THAT WAS SURROUNDED BY RESIDENTIAL AND ALL THE AREAS.
AND THERE'S DEFINITELY NO EFFECT ON PROPERTY VALUES.
AND IN THIS CASE, IT WOULD SHOW THAT YOUR CITY IS ATTRACTING A USER BACK TO THE SITE.
IT'S NOT HAD A LABOR INTENSIVE USE SINCE THE CHURCH BOUGHT IT.
AND THIS IS A GOOD, POSITIVE TURNAROUND THE OTHER DIRECTION.
AND THAT'S WHY I GIVE CREDIT TO YOUR STAFF.
YOU HAVE A VERY STRONG ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM ON YOUR WEBSITE THAT SAYS YOUR CITY WANTS TO ATTRACT NEW BUSINESS.
I THINK YOU RECENTLY APPROVED, UH, YOUR REGULATIONS FOR YOUR NEW AUTO CENTER.
I MEAN, ALL THESE THINGS THAT YOU'RE DOING ARE EXACTLY WHAT YOU WANT TO DO TO HELP IMPROVE ALL THE VALUES IN THE CITY, BOTH RESIDENTIAL AND COMMERCIAL, AND TO, TO ATTRACT AN AMAZON, QUITE FRANKLY, THE COMPETITION FOR THIS, THIS USE WAS PRETTY FAIR.
SO IN OTHER CITIES YOU WENT OUT AND YOU ALSO WENT OUT, UH, VERY MUCH SO BECAUSE OF YOUR STAFF, THE FACT THAT YOU HAVE A STAFF HERE THAT WAS WILLING TO LISTEN, THAT WERE POSITIVE, THAT I KNOW MANY OF YOUR STAFF MEMBERS OVER THE YEARS AND OTHERS, AND THIS WAS A KNOWN QUANTITY TO COME TO A CITY THAT WE KNEW WOULD UNDERSTAND AND WORK WITH US.
UH, THERE ARE SOME CITIES OUT THERE THAT, YOU KNOW, THEY, THEY JUST DON'T HAVE THE SAME CUSTOMER SERVICE, BUT YOU HAVE EXTRAORDINARY CUSTOMER SERVICE OR YOU SHOULD BE PROUD ALL YOUR EMPLOYEES.
I, UM, HAVE ONE MORE QUESTION YOU MADE MENTION OF THE INDUSTRIAL.
SO AFTER THE TENURE, AFTER THE 10 YEAR LEASES OVER NOW, THIS JOB ZONE CHANGE IS
WOULD THAT EVEN ALLOW HEAVY INDUSTRIAL IN THE FUTURE? CAUSE I WOULD THINK THAT THAT WOULD BE A CONCERN FOR RESIDENTS.
THE, THE TYPICAL M ONE ZONE ALLOWS VERY NON-INTRUSIVE USES WITHOUT A CONDITIONAL USE PERMIT WITH LIKE STORAGE AND WAREHOUSE.
BUT I CAN ASSURE YOU WITHOUT EVEN LOOKING AT YOUR CODE BOOK, ALMOST EVERY M ONE ZONE IN CALIFORNIA, IF YOU HAVE ANY USES THAT GENERATE NOISE, SMOKE DUST DEBRIS, IT'S A CONDITIONAL USE PERMIT.
AND WITH A CONDITIONAL USE PERMIT, THAT'S A DISCRETIONARY DECISION BY YOU.
IT HAS TO COME TO YOU, YOU CAN REVIEW IT LEFT AND RIGHT.
AND A DIS A CONDITIONAL USE PERMIT.
SO YOU HAVE FULL CONTROL IN THE ZONING GOING FORWARD.
WHAT'S IRONIC IS THAT NEW ZONE, THIS WAREHOUSE AND INDUSTRIAL A WAREHOUSE AND DISTRIBUTION IS A PERMITTED USE.
SO IT SHOWS YOU THIS, THIS TYPE OF USE WE'RE PROPOSING IN THAT ZONE IS ALREADY A VERY LOW INTENSITY TYPE OF CLASSIFIED USE.
IT'S NOT A MANUFACTURING ASSEMBLY LIKE HONEYWELL HAD, AND HE WAS ELECTRONICS.
THOSE WERE MANUFACTURING OF ELECTRICAL COMPONENTS AND THINGS SUCH AS THAT, AND THEN SHIPPING.
SO IF YOU HAD TO GO INDUSTRIAL, THIS WOULD BE THE BEST BUILDING TO HAVE.
I MEAN, TO GET THIS TYPE OF INDUSTRIAL USER WITH THIS NAME, BECAUSE THIS WILL ATTRACT OTHER BUSINESSES, YOU KNOW, THERE ARE SUPPLIERS TO AMAZON THERE, UH, THE VAN SUPPLY, THE VAN SERVICE AND YOUR GAS STATIONS.
AND AS A COMMUNITY, THAT CONDITION SAYS THAT THE, THIS BUSINESS SHOULD BE BUYING LOCAL VAN DRIVERS OR TO TRY TO BUY ALL THEIR GAS IN YOUR CITY, THAT'S SALES TAXES, IT'S ALL THESE COMPOUNDING THINGS THAT OCCUR AND WOULD IN AN ANY CITY'S ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM THAT I'VE SPENT YEARS WORKING IN CITIES.
IT JUST IT'S BABY STEPS FORWARD AND YOU JUST KEEP GOING FORWARD AND YOU'RE DOING A GREAT JOB IN YOUR CITY.
IT WAS JUST REALLY DRAMATICALLY IMPROVED.
AND THAT'S WHY YOU ATTRACTED AMAZON.
I MEAN, JUST FRANKLY, THAT'S WHAT IT IS.
IS THERE ANYONE ELSE IN FAVOR YOU WOULD LIKE TO COME UP AND SPEAK AND ADAM, UM, JUST BECAUSE OF THE NUMEROUS, UH, MOUNTAIN OF SPEAKERS, IF WE WANT, WE COULD, UM, PROVIDE THREE MINUTE, UH, FOR PUBLIC COMMENTS WOULD BE GOOD.
WE DO HAVE QUITE A FEW, JUST TWO HOURS AT A TIME CITY ATTORNEY.
CAN YOU, UM, SO THE ATTORNEY, CAN YOU CLARIFY THAT THIS, UH, ASSISTANT, AND CAN YOU CLARIFY THE REASONING BEHIND A THREE LIMB THREE MINUTE LIMIT RE NEED IT? I
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THINK IT'S IMPORTANT TO THE RESIDENTS.WE'LL JUST KEEP THE FIVE MINUTES.
SO THERE ARE A COUPLE OF CARDS THAT DON'T SAY IF YOU'RE FOR OR AGAINST SOME GOING TO GO AHEAD AND TAKE YOURS FIRST.
YOU ARE AGAINST, SO YOU MADAM CHAIR.
DO YOU WANT TO CLARIFY IF THERE'S ANYONE IN FAVOR OR THERE'S NO ONE, RIGHT? DO YOU NEED, MY NAME IS PERSON MARTINEZ.
YOU AND I STAND IN OPPOSITION TO THIS AMAZON GIVEAWAY.
I HAVE BEEN A RESIDENT OF WEST COVINA FOR OVER 22 YEARS.
I ALSO WORKED AS A DRIVER FOR UPS AND I AM A PROUD MEMBER OF THE TEAMSTERS UNION FOR OVER 43 YEARS.
UPS JOBS CURRENTLY PAYING $41 AN HOUR AND ALLOW MANY LIKE ME TO LIVE IN WEST COVINA.
I WAS ABLE TO GIVE MY FAMILY A STABILITY.
I WISH I HAD GROWING UP AS IF YOU DIDN'T KNOW ALREADY.
AMAZON IS ABUSER OF EMPLOYER THAT PAYS ITS WORKERS $15 AN HOUR.
AND HE STATED THAT A COUPLE OF TIMES, WHILE INCREASING TRAFFIC POLLUTION AND MAY EVEN LOWER PROPERTY VALUES AROUND THE WAREHOUSES, IT BUILDS YOUR AMAZON GIVEAWAY.
WE'LL PUT ALL WEST COVINA BACK A FEW YEARS, AND YOU SHOULD KNOW TONIGHT YOU ARE TRADING GOOD UNION UPS JOBS FOR AMAZON MCDONALD'S JOBS.
I'M GOING TO TELL YOU WHERE THIS IS GOING.
SO I HAVE A LOT OF TIME ON MY HANDS.
I SPENT THIS AFTERNOON CANVASING WITH MY TEAMSTER UNION IN MY NEIGHBORHOOD, AND NO ONE KNOWS WHAT YOU GUYS ARE DOING YET.
I'M HERE TONIGHT TO VOICE MY OPPOSITION TO THIS DEVELOPMENT.
AND TO LET YOU KNOW THAT WE ARE GOING TO TALK TO AS MANY RESIDENTS AS WE CAN AND LET THEM KNOW HOW YOU ARE GIVING AWAY THE FARM.
NOW, ONE THING THAT HE SAID THERE WAS LIKE 8,000 PEOPLE THAT COME OUT OF THEIR CHURCH.
IF YOU DO THE MATH, THOSE NUMBERS 142 DELIVERY VANS, TIMES 365, THAT'S 50, 70,000.
NO, YOU KNOW WHAT? IT'S NOT A GOOD DEAL.
J I'D LIKE TO SAY THAT, UM, I ALSO WORKED FOR, UH, UM, FOR THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA FOR 20 YEARS.
SO, UM, I FEEL LIKE, UH, THAT SHOULD BE RECOGNIZED.
I WORKED FOR, UH, UH, THE HIGHWAY PATROL AS A DISPATCHER AND I WORKED FOR DEPARTMENT OF WATER RESOURCES.
IF YOU CAN BRING BACK THAT, UM, FUTURE SITE PLAN, I CAN SHOW YOU WHERE I LIVE.
AND, AND I'D LIKE TO TELL YOU THAT THERE'LL BE 12 RESIDENCES IN THE CONDOMINIUM COMPLEX, BY THE WAY, WE'RE IN COVINA.
SO THAT DIDN'T REALLY GET MUCH ATTENTION WHEN THEY WERE LOOKING AT THIS COVINA.
YOU KNOW, NOBODY CAME TO MY DOOR AND CANVAS AT MY DOOR.
UM, THERE'S, THERE'S GOING TO BE 12 RESIDENCES THAT ARE OUT ON SAN BERNARDINO.
AND THE WAY I READ IT, IT'S GOING TO BE TWO TRUCKS AN HOUR DURING THE DAY AND ONE TRUCK AN HOUR AT NIGHT.
SO 14 TRUCKS THAT DOESN'T EQUAL THE SAME AMOUNT.
AND I READ IT FROM A 600 AND SOME PAGES THAT WERE, I DON'T KNOW IF YOU ALL READ THE, THAT WHOLE PROPOSAL.
UM, I'D ALSO LIKE TO POINT OUT WHERE THEY PLAN ON PUTTING THE TRAFFIC LIGHT.
AND I KNOW IF YOU'RE RICH ENOUGH THAT YOU CAN GO INTO OUTER SPACE, YOU CAN DO JUST ABOUT ANYTHING, BUT THERE IS A MAJOR, UM, DRAINAGE CANAL THAT RUNS UNDER THE STREET, RIGHT, WHERE THAT IS.
SO WHEN THEY GO TO CHANGE IT, IT'S NOT GOING TO BE JUST BULLDOZING AND REGRADING.
THEY'RE GOING TO HAVE TO DEAL WITH THAT DRAINAGE CANAL.
IF YOU GO OVER THERE AND LOOK, YOU'LL SEE ALL OF THE, UM, UH, THE WATER AND BY THE WAY, UM, OR WHERE THE WATER IS GATHERED FROM THE, FROM THE DRAINS, BUT, UM, BEHIND THE, UM, UH, WOOD LANE VILLAGE, UM, BETWEEN US AND LAS PALMAS MIDDLE SCHOOL, UM, IS, UH, WHERE THAT DRAINAGE IS OPEN.
AND THEN IT TURNS INTO, UH, GOING UNDER THE STREET.
UM, AND ALSO THEY DIDN'T TAKE INTO CONSIDERATION THE COMINGS AND GOINGS FROM, UH, THE PEOPLE DROPPING OFF AND PICKING UP THEIR KIDS AT LAST THOMAS OFF OF CUTTER AWAY.
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UM, AND THE OTHER SCHOOL ON, ON, UH, LARK.THERE ARE BESIDE THE, UM, WOODLAND VILLAGE, WHICH IS DIRECTLY ACROSS FROM THAT BUILDING THERE ON ARE FOUR MORE APARTMENT BUILDINGS BETWEEN WHERE THE RED IS COMING WITH A PLANNING AND PUTTING THE, UH, STOPLIGHT AND LARK, ELLEN HAVE A DISTANCE OF LESS THAN A HALF A MILE.
UH, THERE IS, UH, SIX THERE'S HUNDREDS OF FAMILIES ON THAT SIDE OF THE STREET, OTHER WAY THERE'S, UM, UH, SIX DRIVEWAYS.
UM, A COUPLE OF THEM ARE ALMOST DIRECTLY ACROSS FROM THE TWO ON THE EAST SIDE.
AND I'VE LIVED THERE FOR 20 YEARS.
THERE'S ACCIDENTS THERE BECAUSE IT'S IT'S DIFFICULT.
AND SO I CAN ONLY SEE A LOT MORE ACCIDENTS HAPPENING WITH THE VANS COMING AND GOING WITH THE ADDITIONAL TRAFFIC THERE.
UM, WEST ON SAN BERNARDINO ROAD, ABOUT A MILE AND A HALF, THERE WAS A CHURCH AND THEY SOLD, THEY BUILT HOUSES THERE.
AND I KNOW WEST COVINA IS COLLECTING TAXES FROM THOSE HOUSES, AND THAT'S NOT GOING TO BE FOR 10 YEARS.
THAT'S GOING TO BE FOR MANY, MANY, MANY YEARS.
WHY CAN'T WE PUT HOUSES THERE, YOU'LL GET A GOOD TAX REVENUE OFF OF THAT.
AND THE SCHOOLS ARE ALREADY THERE.
SO, SO I KNOW THAT THERE'S PEOPLE THAT ARE GOING TO BE MOVING OUT OF MY NEIGHBORS THAT I HAVE, BECAUSE THEY DON'T WANT, BY THE WAY, A TRUCK MAKES A CERTAIN AMOUNT OF NOISE WHEN IT COMES TO A STOP, AND THEN IT GETS THE STOPLIGHT TO CHANGE AND IT MAKES A LEFT TURN.
THAT'S GOING TO HAPPEN ALL NIGHT LONG FOR THOSE RESIDENTS THAT ARE CLOSEST TO THAT CORNER.
SO I JUST SEE IT AS, AS BEING A DEVALUING OF, OF MY PROPERTY AND THE PROPERTY OF THOSE 68 OTHER CONDO UNITS THAT ARE ON THAT CORNER.
UM, I THINK I'VE RUN OUT OF STEAM.
ARIANA, YOU HAVE ANY MADAM CHAIR, COMMISSION, STAFF, AND COMMUNITY.
MY NAME IS SHERRY ORIANA, TEAMSTERS, LOCAL 1932.
MY NEXUS WITH THE CITY IS I REPRESENT THE CIVILIAN POLICE DEPARTMENT EMPLOYEES AT THE POLICE DEPARTMENT.
THE REASON I'M HERE TONIGHT IS I'VE BEEN WATCHING THIS AND I'VE WRITTEN A RESPONSE TO THE MITIGATED NEGATIVE DECLARATION HAD POINT THAT OUT.
SO I DIDN'T SAY IT RIGHT, RIGHT.
COULD, UM, AND I HAVE, UH, A LARGE THREE PAGE DOCUMENT THAT I SUBMITTED FOR TONIGHT.
SO I'M NOT GOING TO GO OVER THAT.
SO LET'S TALK ABOUT WHAT WE'VE HEARD.
LET'S TALK ABOUT WHAT WE'RE GOING TO HEAR.
IT IS NOT A LITTLE DELIVERY STATION THAT MR. LAMB WILL HAVE YOU BELIEVE.
LET'S TALK ABOUT, YOU KNOW, I WROTE DOWN SOME NOTES FROM WHAT I'M HEARING US TALK ABOUT JOBS, HOW WILL THESE JOBS SERVE THE CITY? HOW IS THIS LOCATION GOING TO SERVE THE CITY 250 JOBS? THEY'RE NOT ALL GOING TO BE EMPLOYED BY AMAZON.
YOU HAVE DEV DELIVERY SERVICE PROVIDERS THAT ARE GOING TO BE DEALING WITH THE DRIVERS.
THEY'RE GOING TO BE HIRING THESE DRIVERS $15 AN HOUR.
THAT IS NOT A LIVABLE, SUSTAINABLE WAGE.
THESE DRIVERS ARE WORKING TWO AND THREE JOBS TO MAKE ENDS MEET.
THEY WILL NOT COME INTO YOUR COMMUNITY AND SIT AND THRIVE IN YOUR RESTAURANTS AND HAVE A BEER AFTER WORK, BECAUSE EITHER THEY'RE GOING SOMEWHERE ELSE TO WORK, OR THEY DON'T MAKE ENOUGH MONEY TO DO THAT.
AND THEY'RE NOT BUYING THE INSURANCE THAT THESE COMPANIES ARE PROVIDING BECAUSE IT TAKES AWAY FROM THE LITTLE AMOUNT OF MONEY THEY
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MAKE PER HOUR.AND THERE'S ABSOLUTELY NO PENSION PROVIDED FOR THEM VIA AMAZON OR ANY OF THESE DELIVERY SERVICE PROVIDERS.
HOW IS THIS A GOOD, SUSTAINABLE LIVING WAGE? HOW DOES THAT BENEFIT THIS COMMUNITY? AND ARE THEY GOING TO GUARANTEE THAT THEY'RE GOING TO OFFER THESE JOBS TO THE RESIDENTS OF THIS COMMUNITY? SOMEBODY POINTED OUT, ARE THEY GOING TO BE ABLE TO PROVIDE FOR HOUSING AND LIVING IN THIS COMMUNITY? I'M APPALLED AT MR. LAM THINGS, $15 IS A GOOD, SUSTAINABLE LIVING WAGE.
I'M SURE HE MAKES A HECK OF A LOT MORE MONEY THAN THAT.
AND I WENT WITH MY BROTHER AND I CANVAS THIS AREA.
THEY TALKED TO 29 PEOPLES WITHIN A 300 FOOT RADIUS.
WE WALKED LOUISA AND WE WALKED EL DORADO AND WE HIT OVER CLOSE TO A HUNDRED HOUSES.
I HAVE STATEMENTS FROM 13 RESIDENTS WHO SAID, YES, I DON'T WANT TO, I DON'T WANT TO REDUCE MY HOME VALUE.
I'M WORRIED ABOUT AIR QUALITY.
THEY'RE WORRIED ABOUT THIS STUFF.
ARE THEY HERE TONIGHT? THERE'S QUITE A FEW HERE TONIGHT, AND YOU'RE GOING TO HEAR FROM THEM.
I'M HAPPY TO HEAR ABOUT THAT, BUT THERE WERE A LOT OF ELDERLY RESIDENTS THAT WEREN'T GOING TO BE ABLE TO GET OUT OF HERE TONIGHT.
SO TO TELL ME THAT YOU TALKED TO 29 PEOPLE, THAT'S DEPLORABLE.
YOU HAVE THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE THAT LIVE WITHIN THE CENTER AND ARE GOING TO BE IMPACTED NOT TO MENTION GROVE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, NOT TO MENTION THE OTHER SCHOOLS THAT WERE MENTIONED.
THERE IS, UM, THERE IS A KINDRED HOSPITAL RIGHT THERE.
MATT WILLIAMS, WHEN YOU ASKED ABOUT THE INCREASED TRAFFIC DURING, UM, PEAK HOLIDAY TIMES, ALL OF A SUDDEN MR. LAMB, COULDN'T COME UP WITH A NUMBER FOR YOU.
WELL, 914 TIMES TWO, THAT'S, IT'S PRETTY, UH, IT'S PRETTY KNOWLEDGEABLE.
WHERE ARE WE GOING TO PARK THE EXTRA VANS WHAT'S GOING TO HAPPEN THERE? I LIVE IN A COMMUNITY WHERE I'LL TELL YOU WHERE THEY PUT THE EXTRA VANS.
THEY TOOK OVER AN OLD KMART SHOPPING CENTER AND THEY PUT 75 VANS IN THAT SHOPPING CENTER AND PUT UP HIGH-INTENSITY LIGHTS AND PUT IN SECURITY.
SO YOU COULDN'T ENTER THE PLACE.
AND THEN THEY DIDN'T EVEN GO TO THE CITY COUNCIL FOR APPROVAL.
SO YOU'RE GOING TO HAVE A LOT OF ISSUES ON YOUR HANDS WHEN IT COMES TO SPECIFICS THAT HE WANTS YOU TO KNOW HE'S ALL OVER IT.
BUT WHEN IT COMES TO SPECIFICS THAT THE COMMUNITY NEEDS TO KNOW, HE'S NOT SURE OF IT.
HE'S WELL, WE HAVE TO THINK ABOUT THAT.
WE'RE NOT SURE WE HAVEN'T STUDIED THAT YET.
THIS IS A TIME TO STUDY THAT THIS IS THE TIME TO TAKE THAT INTO CONSIDERATION.
THIS IS A BEAUTIFUL AREA UP THERE, AND THESE HOMES ARE GOING TO SUFFER.
THEIR PROPERTY VALUES ARE GOING TO DEGRADE.
THESE DRIVERS, THEY COME ON DUTY AND THEY'VE GOT SO MANY MINUTES TO GET THESE, THESE, UH, THESE PACKAGES DELIVERED.
THEY'RE NOT GOING TO STAY IN YOUR CITY.
THEY'RE NOT GOING TO ADD TO THE CITY.
THIS WHOLE PROJECT IS NOT GOING TO ADD TO THIS CITY, WHICH IS A NINTH, WORST CITY IN THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA UNDER AUDIT AND ON THE VERGE OF BANKRUPTCY.
THIS IS NOT THE PROGRAM FOR THIS CITY.
MY NAME IS BRANDY DAVIS AND I LIVE RIGHT ACROSS FROM THE ROAD.
SO WHEN I HEARD ABOUT THIS, IT WAS NOT TWO YEARS AGO.
IT WAS A FEW WEEKS AGO, WAS NOT ABLE TO MAKE IT TO THE AUGUST MEETING.
CAUSE I DIDN'T EVEN HEAR ABOUT IT.
WE LIVE RIGHT ACROSS THE STREET.
SO IT'S VERY SURPRISING THAT WE WEREN'T INCLUDED BECAUSE THAT'S WHERE THE STOPLIGHT IS GOING TO BE INSTALLED OR PLANNED TO BE INSTALLED IS THREE TO FOUR CAR LENGTHS AWAY FROM MY FRONT DOOR.
ALL THE TIME I HEAR PART IS FLYING AROUND.
DOWN THAT STREET, SCREECHING TO STOPS SINCE COVID BEGAN, IT'S A RACEWAY.
SO THE LIGHT MIGHT HELP, BUT IT'S ALSO GOING TO BE A PLACE WHERE PEOPLE XCELERATE DECELERATE.
THERE'S BEEN NUMEROUS CAR ACCIDENTS THERE BECAUSE PEOPLE PARK ON BOTH SIDES OF THE STREET, WHICH IS, AND PEOPLE CRASH INTO THOSE CARS ALL THE TIME.
SO AN ADDITIONAL AMOUNT OF TRUCKS AND CARS IS VERY
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DISTURBING.UM, THERE'S SO MUCH STREET NOISE, AND I KEEP HEARING LESS THAN SIGNIFICANT OR NO IMPACT.
I DON'T KNOW IF ANYONE'S EVER NEEDS TO COME PARK THEIR SELVES RIGHT THERE.
THE, WHERE I LOOKED AT THE SOME INITIAL STUDY THAT I FOUND ONLINE, UM, WHERE THEY PUT SOME OF THE MICROPHONES WAS WAY BACK ON CUTTER, SEVERAL LIKE FIVE OR SIX HOUSES.
I WAS SIX HOUSES AWAY FROM THE STREET, EVERY SIX HOUSE LENGTHS.
THEY WENT BACK IN THE DRIVEWAY WITH ONE OF THOSE MICROPHONES.
UM, CHURCH ON SUNDAY WAS WHERE THE TRAFFIC CAME IN ONE DAY, A WEEK, COUPLE OF HOURS.
THERE WAS ACTUALLY A POLICE OFFICER WHO WOULD PARK RIGHT NEXT TO CUTTER TO HELP, TO KEEP IT SAFE BECAUSE IT IS SOMEWHAT OF A BLIND TURN WHEN YOU'RE MAKING A LEFT.
CAUSE THERE'S ALWAYS THE CARS THERE.
SO THEY WORKED ON KEEPING A SAFE, THE PEOPLE PASSING BY PEOPLE, TRYING TO TURN ON THE SIX OR SEVEN HOURS ON SUNDAYS.
THERE'S NO, UM, POLICEMEN, THAT'S GOING TO BE PARKED THERE 24 7.
I HEAR THE TRUCKS GO BY MY HOUSE SHAPES 10 OR SO ONE PER HOUR OVERNIGHT.
I'M DEFINITELY GOING TO HEAR IT.
AND NOT JUST ME, BUT ALL OF US FAMILIES THAT LIVE RIGHT THERE.
AND AGAIN, LIKE THE LAST WOMAN SAID 912.
AT ONE POINT, HE SAID THAT WOULD BE THE MAX.
THAT'S NOT WHAT THE INFORMATION SAYS ABOUT HOW MANY PEOPLE ARE GOING TO BE THERE.
UM, I HAVE BEEN TO, UH, I WORK FOR AMAZON QUITE A BIT.
IN FACT, PEOPLE COME FROM QUITE A DISTANCE TO COME TO WORK.
I WORKED AT THE CITY OF INDUSTRY, UM, WHAT'S THIS CALLED AGAIN? DELIVERY STATION.
IT'S ON VALLEY BETWEEN HACIENDA AND FORGOT THAT STREET FULL INDUSTRIAL AREA AND INDUSTRIAL AREAS ARE THE LOCATIONS THAT ARE PREFERABLE FOR THESE TYPES OF BUSINESSES.
I ASK THAT YOU DON'T APPROVE THIS ZONE CHANGE TO MAKE IT A BUSINESS.
UM, REGARDLESS OF IF WAS BACK IN THE SEVENTIES, UM, A LOT OF, I THINK ARE THAT WASN'T BUILT TILL 1980 AND MANY OF THE LONGTIME RESIDENTS LIKE MICHAEL.
SO WHEN WE BOUGHT IT, WHEN IT WAS BUILT, IT WASN'T LIKE A FULL BLOWN INDUSTRIAL AREA, THE 12 FOOT WALL THAT THEY'RE PUTTING IN CERTAIN AREAS.
IT DOESN'T EXTEND TO ALL OF THE US THAT LIVE RIGHT OFF OF SAN BERNARDINO.
SO WE DON'T HAVE THAT NOISE REDUCTION, THE LIGHT REDUCTION, THE POLLUTION AND THE NOISE REDUCTION.
HE TALKED ABOUT IT BEING A WIN.
IT'S A HUGE LOSS, A LOSS OF PEACE OF MIND, A LOSS OF QUIET, WHICH WE ALL NEED NOW IN THIS TIME AND DAY THAT WE'RE LIVING IN.
UM, ONE OF THE COMMUNITY BENEFITS THAT HE LIFTED WAS IF IT HAPPENS THAT THE BACKUP LIGHTS ARE NOISY, WE'LL GO BACK AND SEE WHAT WE'RE GOING TO DO.
THAT HAPPENS SO MANY TIMES LIKE WE'LL GO BACK AND SEE, ARE THEY REALLY GONNA GO BACK? WHO'S GONNA, MAN.
THOSE ARE WE'RE CALLING IN TALKING ABOUT THE NOISES.
IT REALLY GONNA MAKE THEM REDUCE THE BUSINESS.
ARE THEY REALLY GONNA SAY, OH, WE'VE HAD 20 COMPLAINTS FROM THE NEIGHBORHOOD THIS WEEK, BUT WE'RE EXPECTING PRIME DAY, UH, UH, 10, THE MINI WEEKS OF CHRISTMAS THAT WE'RE GOING TO REDUCE BUSINESS FOR THESE PEOPLE.
SO AGAIN, I ASK THAT YOU DON'T APPROVE THIS AND RECOMMEND THAT IT'S TURNED DOWN.
THERE'S NO FIRST NAME ROBINSON.
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GOOD EVENING.UH, BILL ROBINSON RESIDENT, UH, UH, I'M GOING TO GO THROUGH THE COMMENTS REAL QUICK WITH THE CONCLUSION FIRST, UH, WE MEMBERS OF THE NEIGHBORHOOD URGE YOU TO TABLE RESOLUTIONS 93 TO 98 AND THIS INCOMPLETE WORK PRODUCT.
UH, I MEAN ALL THOSE, UH, ENTITLEMENTS THAT WERE JUST LISTED, UH, REQUIRE AN ADEQUATE, UH, AN INITIAL STUDY SO THAT YOU HAVE THE FACTS TO COME TO A LEGAL SECRET DETERMINATION.
AND THAT, UH, FURTHERMORE, YOU DO NOT USE YOUR ZONING POWERS TO, TO SCREW UP OUR EXISTING NEIGHBORHOOD, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, UH, COMPROMISING OUR PROPERTY VALUES, FIX ALL THE PROBLEMS LISTED I'LL, UH, TALK ABOUT AND THEN CONTINUE.
SO THAT DUE PROCESS IS PROVIDED UNDER SECRET TO OUR LOCAL COMMUNITY.
NOW, MY COMMENTS I'LL, I'LL JUST LIST THEM, UH, STARTING AT COMMENTS OF, FOR, UH, THE PROJECT PERMANENT PROPONENT CAN IDENTIFY ENVIRONMENTAL EFFECTS BY USE OF A CHECKLIST, BUT THE CHECKLIST IS INCORRECTLY FILLED OUT.
AND THEREFORE THIS INITIAL STUDY IS NOT ADEQUATE.
WEST COVINA DOES NOT NOW HAVE ADEQUATE INFORMATION TO USE AS THE BASIS FOR DECIDING WHETHER TO PREPARE, UH, ONE OF THE THREE, UH, PROPOSED, UH, ENVIRONMENTAL DOCUMENTS.
THEREFORE ACTION TONIGHT WOULD NOT BE LEGAL UNDER SECRET.
MY OWN VIEW OF THIS PROJECT ARE SIGNIFICANTLY DIFFERENT THAN THE FACTS FOR YOU TONIGHT.
MY ANALYSIS INDICATES THAT A FULL MASTER ER, TOGETHER WITH ALL THE NEEDED PLANNING DOCUMENTS, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO INFORMATION TO USE ON THE BASIS OR DECIDED WHETHER TO PREPARE AN ENVIRONMENTAL REPORT, INCLUDING ALL REQUIRED ENTITLEMENTS, UH, NEEDED, NEEDED TO BE INCLUDED.
COMMENTS, SIX ZONING OF SUCH A FACILITY IS NOT COMPATIBLE TO THAT OF A RESIDENTIAL BEDROOM COMMUNITY.
IF WE IN OUR NEIGHBORHOOD HAD WISHED TO LIVE NEAR A REGIONAL DISTRIBUTION WAREHOUSE, WE COULD HAVE PURCHASED HOMES IN IRWINDALE OR THE CITY OF INDUSTRY COMMENTS, SEVEN OTHER AREAS OF THIS INITIAL STUDY ANALYSIS THAT ARE INADEQUATE INCLUDE THE BELOW A NUMERATED SIX AREAS.
I'LL SKIP THROUGH THOSE SIX THERE IN THE WRIT ON IN WRITING COMMENT EIGHT, UH, NO MITIGATED COMMUNITY BENEFITS HAVE SO FAR BEEN DISCUSSED AS YET IN THIS INITIAL STUDY ANALYSIS, EXCEPT THE $4 MILLION SALES TAX FEE COMMENT, NINE MANDATORY FINDINGS OF SIGNIFICANCE TRAFFIC DENSITY.
THE ZONING ISSUES ARE INCOMPATIBLE WITH THIS ADJACENT RESIDENTIAL NEIGHBORHOOD.
ALL THE ELEMENTS DESCRIBED BELOW ARE SIGNIFICANT IMPACTS.
AND I LIST A, I LIST THEM, HELL, SKIP THAT RIGHT NOW, COMMENT 10, THESE MANDATORY FINDINGS OF SIGNIFICANT OUR COMMUNITY CAN GIVE ME A LITTLE TIP EFFECTS ARE PRESENTED THAT ARE SIGNIFICANT, WHICH ARGUES FOR THE NO PROJECT, ALTERNATIVE 11 ZONING, UH, TRAFFIC, THE ENVIRONMENT, AND AMBIANCE OF THE IMMEDIATE NEIGHBORHOOD, QUALITY OF LIFE, PROPERTY VALUES, INDUSTRIALIZATION POLLUTION, AND QUALITY OF LIFE.
UH, DEGRADATION ASPECTS, 12 AMAZON DELIVERY STATION.
UH, UH, THE NEGATIVE DECK IS FLAWED AND NEEDS TO BE TABLED UNTIL IT CAN BE COMPLETELY, UH, SUFFICIENTLY AND ADEQUATELY AND ONLY THEN SUBMITTED FOR PLANNING COMMISSION APPROVAL 13, UH, PIECEMEALING OR SEGMENTING MEANS DIVIDING A PROJECT INTO TWO OR MORE PIECES AND EVALUATED EACH PIECE IN A SEPARATE ENVIRONMENTAL DOCUMENT RATHER THAN EVALUATING THE WHOLE OF THE PROJECT.
IN ONE ENVIRONMENTAL DOCUMENT, IT APPEARS OF AMAZON DELIVERY PROJECT IS CONSIDERING ALL POTENTIAL, UH, POTENTIAL FUTURE ACTIONS IN THIS SPECIFIC PLAN.
HOWEVER, IF THIS IS NOT THE CASE, THEN AMAZON PROJECT WOULD BE TAKING A CORE, SIGNIFICANTLY COUNTER TO THE SECRET PROCESS, UNINTENDED CONSEQUENCES.
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IF THIS PROJECT GOES THROUGH AND THENAND THE COUNCIL WOULD HAVE A NEW LOCATION WITH THE FIVE STAR HOTEL THAT THEY WANT TO PUT ON BKK.
SO, UH, IF, YOU KNOW, IF THIS SUCCEEDS, UH, THE, UH, EXISTING MALL MIGHT GO DOWN, THANK YOU, CHERYL PEREZ.
UM, MY NAME IS CHERYL PEREZ AND I ACTUALLY MANAGED LARC ELLEN VILLAGE APARTMENTS.
SO WE WOULD BE THE NEIGHBOR TO THIS PROJECT THAT YOU'RE PROPOSING.
UM, I WANT TO FIRST SAY THAT LARK AND IS A PARTNERSHIP WITH THE CITY OF WEST COVINA.
YOU HELP FUND THE AFFORDABLE HOUSING PROPERTY THAT WE HAVE.
AND I WAS SHOCKED TO FIND OUT THAT THIS DEAL BEEN GOING ON FOR TWO YEARS, BUT YET WE WERE NEVER NOTIFIED.
WE WOULD NEVER, NO ONE EVER CAME TO OUR BUILDING AND KNOCKED ON DOORS.
UM, VERY FEW RESIDENTS EVEN RECEIVED THE FIRST NOTICE THAT WENT OUT BY MS. BURNS, THE MANAGEMENT OFFICE WAS NEVER NOTIFIED.
WE WERE NEVER ASKED ANY QUESTIONS ABOUT THIS PROJECT GOING ON.
AND I DID ATTEND THE ZOOM MEETING AND A LOT OF OUR QUESTIONS WERE ANSWERED, BUT WE DO HAVE SOME CONCERNS.
SO MY CONCERNS ARE FOR MY 200 RESIDENTS, 98 SENIORS, 102 FAMILIES AND 62 CHILDREN THAT LIVE AT LARK HILL AND VILLAGE.
UM, I WANT TO SAY THAT THE INFORMATION IS WRONG REGARDING THE SOUND WALL OR THE WALL THAT WE SHARE WITH THE PROPERTY.
THE WALL ONLY EXTENDS ABOUT 50% OF THE PROPERTY LINE.
THE REST IS A ROD IRON FENCE WITH TREES AND SHRUBBERY.
SO ORIGINALLY WHEN I SPOKE WITH DEAN NAVARRO, HE TOLD ME THAT WE WOULD BE RECEIVING A SOUND WALL THERE GOING THE LENGTH OF OUR PROPERTY.
AND THEN IN THE PRESENTATION THAT WAS NOW TURNED TO A SOUND WALL, BEING BUILT ONLY ON BADILLO AVENUE.
SO I WANT TO KNOW, UM, WHY THOSE CHANGES WERE MADE WHEN IT'S NOT THE SOUND WALL THEY'RE INTENDING TO BUILD WHAT NOT EVEN HELP OUR PROPERTY, HELP OUR RESIDENTS AT ALL, WHICH 50% OF THE PROPERTY WILL HAVE AN OPEN VIEW THROUGH THE WROUGHT IRON FENCE OF ALL THE VANS COMING AND GOING.
SO THAT NEEDS TO BE RESOLVED TOO.
IT WAS NEVER MENTIONED IN THE ZOOM, A WEBINAR, UM, MEETING ABOUT THEM, PAINTING THE EXISTING WHITE CURBS RED AT EVERY ENTRANCE TO HAVE A CLEAR VIEW, THAT'S GOING TO IMPACT OUR NEIGHBORHOOD ON BOTH BADILLO AVENUE AND SUMMER AND DINO ROAD.
THOSE CURVES ARE USED FOR APARTMENT LIVING, FOR RESIDENTS TO PARK THEIR CARS ALL ALONG THE SAN BERNARDINO ROAD.
WE HAVE, I BELIEVE IT'S SIX APARTMENT BUILDINGS IN THE CONDO COMMUNITY THAT USE THE CURB PARKING FOR THEIR VEHICLES.
IF YOU COME IN AND CHANGE THOSE CURBS TO RED, THAT'S GREATLY GOING TO IMPACT OUR IT'S GOING TO PHYSICALLY IMPACT OUR COMMUNITIES.
UM, LET'S SEE, NUMBER, UH, OKAY.
LASTLY, THIS IS NOT A, A BIG ISSUE, BUT UM, CURRENTLY LARK HILL AND VILLAGE, WE HAVE PUBLIC RESTROOMS GUESS WHO USES OUR PUBLIC RESTROOMS AT THIS TIME DURING, UH, DURING THE DAY TO GO TO THE RESTROOM, AMAZON DRIVERS, THEY CONTINUALLY KNOCK ON MY WINDOW FRANTICALLY, CAN WE USE YOUR RESTROOM? YOU KNOW, OF COURSE WE OPENED THE GATE, WE LET THEM IN, WE LET THEM USE THE RESTROOM.
SO THAT IS A CONCERN I ALSO HAVE.
SO BASED ON THE NEW PROPERTY THAT'S BEING BUILT, WILL THESE CONTRACTED DRIVERS HAVE USED OF A PUBLIC FACILITY TO USE THE RESTROOM OR WILL THEY NEED TO CONTINUE TO FIND RESTAURANTS AND BUSINESS OWNERS THAT WILL LET THEM IN TO USE THE RESTAURANT WHILE THEY'RE DOING THEIR DELIVERIES? UM, AND AGAIN, I AGREE WITH THE OTHER SPEAKERS.
I ALSO LIVE IN THE CITY OF WEST COVINA.
I, I LIVE, UM, UP BY SUNSET IN 20.
WE NEVER RECEIVED A NOTICE, NO ONE EVER CAME TO MY DOOR.
UM, IF THIS HAS BEEN GOING ON FOR TWO YEARS, WHY DID
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WE NOT REACH OUT TO THE COMMUNITY SOONER? WHY LIKE THE, UM, I BELIEVE BRANDY SAID, YOU KNOW, WHY WAS IT JUST, UH, IN THE MONTH OF AUGUST WHERE WE EVEN NOTIFIED THAT THIS WAS TAKING PLACE, WE SHOULD HAVE BEEN INCLUDED IN A DECISION LIKE THIS.UM, AND I GUESS LASTLY, I'M JUST CONCERNED FOR MY RESIDENTS.
UM, IF YOU LOOK AT THE MAP IT, SO FOR THE FIRST HALF OF THE PROPERTY THAT RUNS FROM SAN BERNARDINO, SOUTH TOWARDS BADILLO, THOSE ARE SENIOR UNITS.
SO THERE'S ROUGHLY 30 SENIOR UNITS THAT WILL BE FACING AMAZON.
SO I'M JUST CONCERNED FOR THEIR WELL-BEING THEY'RE SLEEPING AT NIGHT, LIKE HOW THAT'S GOING TO IMPACT THEM, ESPECIALLY WITH THE TRUCKS COMING DOWN SAN BERNARDINO ROAD, AS BRANDY DID POINT OUT THE, THE GROUND SHAKES.
AND SO WE'RE GOING TO BE HAVING THIS MANY TRUCKS DRIVING.
UM, I JUST WANT YOU TO CONSIDER THAT.
AND THEN, UM, FOR THE REST OF THE PROPERTY, MY 69 CHILDREN THAT DO WALK TO GROVE CENTER SCHOOL, THAT IS ALSO A CONCERN OF MINE.
THANK YOU, STEVE PRITCHARD, STEVE PRITCHARD, UH, AS A NEARBY HOMEOWNER TO THE DELIVERY STATION, I HAVE CONCERNS ABOUT ITS EFFECTS ON THE NEIGHBORHOOD, THE COMMUNITY, AND FOR THE WORKERS FOR THE NEIGHBORHOOD INCREASED TRAFFIC AND THE ENSUING INCREASE IN AIR POLLUTION FOR THE COMMUNITY.
A LARGE AMAZON FOOTPRINT WILL BE TO THE DETRIMENT OF LOCAL BUSINESSES.
AND FOR THE WORKERS HAVE BEEN SUBJECT TO HISTORICALLY POOR LABOR PRACTICES, ANTI-UNION MOBILIZATION AND MINIMAL JOB SECURITY AND NO UPWARD MOBILITY.
THE NEIGHBORHOODS SURROUNDING THE STATION WILL SUFFER THE POOR AIR QUALITY ROAD, DETERIORATION AND NOISE THAT COMES WITH THE INFLUX OF VEHICLES, AN AREA THAT IS ALREADY HOSTILE TO PEDESTRIANS AND CHILDREN, CHILDREN PLAY IN WILL BECOME MORE SAY THE CREASE IN THE QUALITY OF LIFE FOR MY KIDS AND MY NEIGHBORS, THE AMAZON EFFECT ON LOCAL MOM AND POP ENTERPRISES IS SOMETHING THAT SHOULD BE NOTED BEFORE WE JOINED IN WITH THEIR SMALL BUSINESS KILLING PHILOSOPHY.
THESE STORES THAT HAVE BEEN LONG BEEN PART OF THE COMMUNITY, DO NOT STAND A CHANCE.
EVEN THE LARGE BUSINESSES THAT WE HOST IN THE PLAZA OR EASTLAND ARE STRUGGLING TO COMPLETE WITH THE TAX DODGING MONOLITH THAT IS HOPING TO CLAIM WEST COVINA AS TERRITORY IN THEIR MARCH TO DOMINANCE 2015 ANALYSIS FOUND THAT AMAZON SALES DISPLACED RETAIL OUTLETS THAT WOULD HAVE PAID 528 MILLION IN PROPERTY TAXES, AMAZON FOR THEIR PART, LIKE TO BYPASS SUCH PAPERWORK, BUT EVEN THE SALES TAX THAT LOCAL RESIDENTS PAY WHEN SHOPPING FOR AMAZON GOODS WILL NOT NEARLY COVER THE EXPANSIVE INFRASTRUCTURE MAINTENANCE NEEDED FOR THE DAILY ARRIVAL OF 18 WHEELERS, TRUCKS AND CARS THAT WILL DESCEND ON OUR NEIGHBORHOOD 24 7.
AND FINALLY, THE WORKERS AT AMAZON, THE JOBS THAT ARE CREATED A BAD JOBS.
AMAZON HAS THE UNIQUE ABILITY TO STRANGLE THE LOCAL ECONOMY TO THE POINT WHERE THESE JOBS ARE CONSIDERED ESSENTIAL TO THE WORKERS, BUT WORKERS ARE DEEMED EASILY REPLACEABLE TO AMAZON WORKING CONDITIONS THAT DANGEROUSLY POOR TECHNOLOGY HAS BEEN USED TO TRACK WORKERS, MOVEMENTS, AND DISCIPLINE AND TERMINATION GREETS.
THOSE WHO DO NOT MOVE ENOUGH DURING THEIR SHIFT.
THE TURNOVER RATE OF HOURLY EMPLOYEES IN 2019 WAS 150%.
IF WE THINK WE BRING GOOD JOBS TO THE CITY, THEN THE DATA DISAGREES.
ALSO AMAZON HAS MADE NO SECRET OF THEIR JOURNEY TOWARDS AUTOMATE AUTOMATION.
IDEALLY FOR THEIR BUSINESS MODEL, WEST COVINA WILL SOON HOST THE WAREHOUSE FULL OF ROBOTS WITH 18 WHEELER TRUCKS AND SELF-EMPLOYED AMAZON ASSOCIATES DELIVERING THE PRODUCT.
I'M HOPING THAT THE PLANNING COMMISSION SHARES MY CONCERN AND AGREES ON THE NET NEGATIVE IMPACT OF WELCOMING AMAZON'S DELIVERY STATION.
SO OUR CITY ARE YOU TOBIAS TOBIAS? I NAME'S TOBIAS.
I LIVE IN THE APARTMENTS RIGHT NEXT TO THE SITE PROPOSAL AND LARK ELLEN APARTMENTS.
AND TO MY UNDERSTANDING, THE JOBS THEY'RE GOING TO BE CREATIVE FOR $15 AN HOUR ARE NOT
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AS THEY EVERYONE'S SAYING LIVABLE WAGES.I UNDERSTAND THAT THERE ARE ENTRY LEVELS FOR PART-TIME WORKERS, HIGH SCHOOL, YOU KNOW, COLLEGE KIDS, WHATEVER.
THEY'RE NOT THERE TO MAKE A LIVING OFF OF IT.
THE REVENUE BEING GENERATED FROM THIS, I HOPE CAN BE USED TO FIX UP WEST COVINA, THE SIDEWALKS AROUND THE LUCK, ELLEN APARTMENTS, WHERE THE ELDERLY DO THEIR WALKS IS VERY DANGEROUS.
PEOPLE HAVE FELL DOWN AND TRIPPED.
THERE WERE ALSO THE REVENUE BEING GENERATED SINCE YOU ALREADY MADE THE DECISION TO GO AHEAD AND GO WITH THIS PLAN.
CAN 10%, 20% BE PUT ASIDE FOR THE HEALTH CARE OR THE, WHAT IS IT? UH, THE PLANNING OF LOS ANGELES THAT DON'T GIVE US THE MONEY, THE OWN, THE HEALTH DEPARTMENT THAT WE WAS GIVING THEM WANTS TO DO ITSELF.
THERE'S NO FUNDING FOR THAT ALREADY.
IF YOU ALREADY HAVE PROVED TO THIS 10, 20%, WE PUT ASIDE TO START THAT OFF, EVEN THOUGH I WISH YOU GUYS COULD PUT THAT ON HOLD.
CAUSE THERE'S A LOT OF QUESTIONS ON THAT.
AS FAR AS THE NOISE IS CONCERNED FOR THE, FOR THE, ARE MY RESIDENTS, AS WELL AS, UH, CHERYL'S WE ARE CONCERNED FOR THE NOISE, THAT'S GO OUT, BUT I DID ALL WANTS TO WALK AROUND.
SEMI-TRUCKS DO MAKE A CERTAIN AMOUNT OF NOISE.
IT IS A CERTAIN AMOUNT OF VIBRATION.
I REALLY DON'T HEAR IT AS MUCH.
I JUST HOPE SINCE YOU ALREADY APPROVED OF THIS IS THAT YOU TAKE ART CONSIDERATIONS AND TRY TO WORK WITH AMAZON TO RECONCILE IT.
CAUSE I, I FIND THE STANDING, YOU REPRESENT THE PROPERTY OWNER.
I DON'T SEE A RE UH, AMAZON REPRESENTATIVE HERE TO ANSWER QUESTIONS.
HE ANSWERED THE QUESTION TO THE BEST OF HIS ABILITY, BUT HE'S NOT REPRESENTING AMAZON TO MY UNDERSTANDING.
SO WHERE ARE THEY AT? THAT'S MY QUESTION.
UH, GOOD EVENING CHAIR, BISETTA AND MEMBERS OF THE COMMISSION.
UH, MY NAME IS ELISSA PASTOR AND I AM LEGAL COUNSEL FOR THE OWNER OF THE LARK ELLEN, UH, PROPERTY RIGHT NEXT DOOR.
UM, AS CHERYL MENTIONED, IT'S 122 UNIT, A HUNDRED PERCENT AFFORDABLE HOUSING COMPLEX.
SO WE SHARE A 650 FOOT PROPERTY LINE WITH THIS, UH, FACILITY.
AND AS SHE MENTIONED, IT ACTUALLY IS NOT A WALL THERE'S PART, WALL, AND PART, UM, WROUGHT IRON FENCE.
AND SO WE'RE VERY CONCERNED ABOUT THE IMPACTS.
NOW WE'RE NOT HERE TO STOP THIS PROJECT.
WE'RE HERE TO MAKE THIS PROJECT BETTER, TO HAVE CONDITIONS OF APPROVAL THAT ARE APPROPRIATE OPERATING CONDITIONS, TO PROTECT THE RESIDENTS, BOTH OF OUR DEVELOPMENT, BUT OF THE OTHER PLACES.
AND YOU KNOW, WE'RE REALLY DISAPPOINTED THAT IF THIS PROJECT'S BEEN GOING ON FOR TWO YEARS, IT HASN'T BEEN VETTED WITH US, TOM SAFFRON.
WHO'S THE OWNER, TOM HEFFERNAN ASSOCIATES.
WHO'S THE OWNER OF THIS PROJECT IS ALSO DEVELOPED 6,000 UNITS ACROSS SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA.
THEY ARE ONE OF THE MOST COMMITTED CLIENTS I HAVE EVER SEEN TO COMMUNITY OUTREACH.
UH, ONE OF THE LAST PROJECTS I DID WITH THEM, WE PROBABLY HAD 35 COMMUNITY OUTREACH MEETINGS LAST NIGHT.
I HADN'T GOT A PROJECT APPROVED BECAUSE USUALLY I'M ON THE OTHER SIDE.
HONESTLY, WE HAD PROBABLY 60 MEETINGS WITH PEOPLE AND WE GOT UNANIMOUS APPROVAL BECAUSE WE DO THE WORK TO GET THE COMMUNITY, TO COME TO THE TABLE AND TO ADDRESS THEIR CONCERNS.
AND SO WHAT I'M HEARING IS THERE'S A LOT OF PROMISES ABOUT WE HAVE ALL THESE OPERATING CONDITIONS AND WE'RE GOING TO NOT HAVE VEHICLES IN THE, AND NO MOVEMENT IN THIS AREA BETWEEN 10:00 AM AND 10:00 PM.
BUT NONE OF THOSE THINGS ARE IN THE DEVELOPMENT AGREEMENT.
NONE OF THOSE THINGS ARE IN THE CONDITIONS OF APPROVAL AND THEY ARE NOT MITIGATION MEASURES.
AND YOU MIGHT HEAR, OH, WELL, IF IT'S IN THE PROJECT DESCRIPTION, YOU CAN GO IN AND YOU CAN ENFORCE IT.
I KNOW ALL THE TRICKS, RIGHT? I'VE BEEN ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THIS.
WE NEED THINGS TO BE IN THE CONDITIONS OF APPROVAL TO PROTECT THE RESIDENTS.
AND SO WE, UM, I SUBMITTED A LETTER TODAY AND IT'S GOT VERY EXTENSIVE SUGGESTIONS FOR THE CONDITIONS OF APPROVAL.
SO I WANT TO WALK THROUGH SOME OF THOSE WITH YOU, BUT LIKE, LET ME, LET ME GIVE YOU AN EXAMPLE OF WHAT I'M TALKING ABOUT.
SO THE TRAFFIC STUDY AND THE TRAFFIC ANALYSIS TALKS ABOUT HOW THERE ARE VARIOUS ALTERNATIVE MEASURES, INCLUDING, UM, VAN POOL, UH, PRETECH SUBSIDY AND SOME OTHER THINGS,
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AND THAT'S SUPPOSED TO MITIGATE THE IMPACT.SO IF THAT'S GOING TO MITIGATE THE IMPACT, IT NEEDS TO BE A MITIGATION MEASURE.
IT'S NOT A MITIGATION MEASURE.
THERE'S NO GUARANTEE THAT AMAZON IS GOING TO DO ANY OF THOSE THINGS.
AND SO WE WANT THEM TO INTEGRATE THESE CONDITIONS INTO THE APPROVAL.
WE WANT THERE TO BE A NOISE MONITOR, UM, AT THE, THEY DID NOT TAKE ANY NOISE MEASUREMENTS AT THE PROPERTY LINE BETWEEN OUR PROPERTIES.
AND WE WOULD LIKE FOR THERE TO BE AN ENFORCEABLE CONDITION THAT SAYS THE NOISE CANNOT EXCEED AN INCREASE, THE FIVE DBA DURING THE DAY AND THREE DBA AT NIGHT.
IF IN FACT THERE IS NO ONE WHO IS GOING TO BE USING THAT PURPLE AREA, THIS SHOULDN'T BE A PROBLEM.
THERE NEEDS TO BE A CONDITION THAT SAYS THERE CAN BE NO VEHICLES COMING OR GOING FROM THAT AREA BETWEEN 10:00 AM AND 10:00 PM OR 10:00 PM TO 10:00 AM.
UM, WE WOULD LIKE TO SEE A 12 FOOT WALL, JUST LIKE THE SOUND WALL THAT IS BEING, UM, INTEGRATED INTO THE WESTERN PART OF THE SITE, BETWEEN OUR PROPERTY, TO THE EXTENT THAT ANY LANDSCAPING GETS REMOVED, IT CAN BE PUT, IT CAN BE REPLACED.
UM, WE'VE BEEN TOLD THERE ARE STANDARD OPERATING CONDITIONS BY AMAZON THAT DON'T LET PEOPLE PLAY MUSIC.
THEY CAN'T DO ALL THESE THINGS GREAT.
LET'S MAKE THEM CONDITIONS, RIGHT.
UM, WE'D ALSO VERY MUCH LIKE TO SEE, UH, I THINK IT WAS COMMISSIONER HANG THAT NOTICED THAT THERE WAS FOUR, UH, DRIVEWAYS ON VIDEO AND THREE ON SAN BERNARDINO.
WE'D LIKE TO SEE, UH, THOSE EASTERN MOST DRIVEWAYS CLOSED.
WE'RE A LITTLE UNCLEAR WHY THE TRAFFIC CIRCULATION IS SUCH THAT YOU'VE GOT ALL THESE VANS THAT ARE GOING RIGHT BY OUR PROPERTY LINE.
LET'S MOVE THE DRIVE AISLE OVER, LET'S MOVE IT OVER AND MAKE THERE TO BE LESS IMPACT.
AND THEN OUR LAST CONCERN IS REALLY ABOUT THE LIGHTING.
UM, WE'D LIKE TO SEE, WE'D LIKE TO MAKE SURE THAT LIGHTING LEVELS ARE NOT INCREASED.
UM, THERE WAS VERY SPECIFIC LIGHTING REQUIREMENTS IN THE PREVIOUS PLAN FOR THE CHURCH.
AND SO WE WANT TO SEE THOSE EITHER MAINTAINED OR FOR THE LIGHTING TO BE LESS TO THE, UH, I THINK, UH, ONE OF THE STAFF WAS TALKING ABOUT THE FOOT CANDLES.
AGAIN, LET'S MAKE THAT A CONDITION OF APPROVAL.
SO LET'S MAKE THIS A PROJECT WHERE IF THERE ARE ISSUES WE CAN COME IN AND WE CAN WORK WITH THE CITY.
WE'VE REACHED OUT TO THE DEVELOPER.
WE REACHED OUT, WE HAD A CONVERSATION LAST WEEK.
WE ARE HAPPY TO WORK WITH THEM ON THESE CONDITIONS AND MAKING THIS TO BE, UM, A FACILITY THAT CAN BENEFIT EVERYONE.
MADAM CHAIR FOR SARAH AND MEMBERS OF THE COMMISSION.
I LIVE IN PALM PARK, YOUR NEIGHBOR AND CITY I ATTENDED.
AND I WAS ALSO A FORMER PLANNING COMMISSIONER, BUT NOT FOR WEST COAST BUFFER BALDWIN PARK FOR MANY, MANY YEARS.
THE REASON I'M HERE IS NOT ONLY IS IT AFFECTING WEST COVINA.
IT'S AFFECTING COVINA, IT'S AFFECTING THE SCHOOL DISTRICTS AND BALDWIN PARK AND MANY OTHER COMMUNITIES.
YOU TALKED ABOUT IT 4 MILLION OR THE STAFF, CORRECT? COMMENDED OR TALKED ABOUT THE $4 MILLION THAT THE CITY WILL GET.
OR THE NEXT 10 YEARS YOU'VE GOT TO BE KIDDING.
YOURSELVES, ASKED YOUR PUBLIC WORKS, HOW MUCH IT COSTS TO REPAVE FROM LAR CALLAN TO VINCENT FROM THE LOW TO VINCENT, FROM VINCENT TO, BUT THE YIELD AND SO ON AND SO FORTH.
YOU WANT TO SPEND MORE THAN $4 MILLION AND THE 10 YEAR.
SO YOU'RE NOT GETTING ANY BENEFIT FROM THOSE SORT OF MILLION DOLLARS.
AND THIS IS AGAIN, I LIKED THE BUY SHARES QUESTIONS AND EVERYBODY ELSE'S, YOU KNOW, THE COST, YOU'RE GOING TO SPEND MORE MONEY IN ROAD REPAIRS THAN WHAT YOU'RE ACTUALLY GOING TO GET.
THEY'RE A GREAT COMPANY BUSTED LIKE SOMEONE MENTIONED, WHERE ARE THEY TODAY? IT'S NOT SOMETHING AGAINST HIM.
IT'S AGAINST COMPANY THAT RICHES MEN IN THE WORLD, $15 AN HOUR.
GUESS WHAT? THAT'S CAME, HOW MUCH THEY GET $15 THAT CAN LIVE IT, GET EMPLOYEES.
HOW MANY PLACES HAVE YOU GONE SAYS HELP WANTED SIGNS $15 AN HOUR.
AS SOME OF THE PUBLICS HAVE MENTIONED, AS VICE-CHAIR LEWIS MENTIONED THE $15 AN HOUR, YOU CANNOT, NO ONE CAN BUY A HOUSE.
SOMEONE THAT HITS A FAMILY CANNOT RAISE A FAMILY IN WEST COVINA OR ANY COMMUNITY HERE IN THE SAN GABRIEL VALLEY PERIOD.
SO IT'S NOT A SLIDE THAT WE HAD ABOUT TRANSPORTATION, THAT TRANSPORTATION ON THOSE SIGNS
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THAT READ SIGNS AND EVERYTHING.THEY'RE ONLY BENEFITS FOR AMAZON BECAUSE IF THEY PUT THAT TRAFFIC SIGNAL, THOSE TRUCKS, AS THEY MENTIONED, TRACTOR TRAILERS COULD NOT MAKE A RIGHT-HAND TURN OR COULD NOT MAKE A LEFT TURN.
THEY'RE NOT FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE RESIDENTS OF THE COMMUNITY.
AND IT'S THE BENEFIT OF THE TENANT THAT WILL BE COMING TO THIS FACILITY.
UH, JUST AGAIN, THE ENVIRONMENTAL, REMEMBER THEIR SCHOOLS, THEY MENTIONED ABOUT THE HOURS THAT THEY'RE NOT GOING TO BE COMING IN AT SEVEN O'CLOCK IN THE MORNING, SIX O'CLOCK IN THE MORNING.
BUT HOW MANY ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS, JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOLS YOU HAVE IN THE AREA? KIDS ARE PLAYING THERE.
IT'S NOT A QUIET NEIGHBORHOOD WHERE THE TRUCKS GO BY.
SOMEONE MENTIONED CITY, SUBURBAN WINDOW AND INDUSTRY AND SO ON AND SO FORTH.
YOU CHECK OUT OTHER BURDENS CITIES.
THERE'S NO SCHOOLS THERE AND THUS MAGA AND EVERYTHING ELSE IS BAD FOR THE COMMUNITY.
YOU HEARD ABOUT SOME BATTERY COMPANIES BECAUSE OF THE ENVIRONMENT.
AND AGAIN, THEY'RE GOING TO BE DRIVING BECAUSE THAT LOCATION IS NOT NEAR ANY TYPE OF FREEWAYS.
WHAT TIME OF THE DAY IT IS SUNBURN ROAD, BADILLO, VINCENT, LARK, CALLEN, AND SO ON AND SO FORTH.
BOTH EAST AND WEST, UH, SIGNALS ARE NOT SYNCHRONIZED BY ANY WAYS.
CAN YOU IMAGINE? I HAVE TO STOP PART OF OUR CALIN NOW THE NEW SIGNAL, AND NOW I'M VINCENT AND NOW IT'S ONSET.
AND NOW IN THE ORANGE, HOW MANY TIMES HAVE YOU GUYS BEEN STUCK? LIKE YOU GOT A GREEN LIGHT, BUT YOU CANNOT MOVE.
I GOT A GREEN LIGHT, BUT IF I MOVE TO THE MIDDLE, I'M GOING TO BLOCK THE TRAFFIC GOING THE OTHER DIRECTION.
AND AGAIN, I MENTIONED ABOUT TEARING UP THE STREETS.
THAT TO ME IS THE BIGGEST THING.
AGAIN, THE CHURCH HAS MENTIONED ABOUT THIS LADY HERE IN THE FRONT, IT'S ONLY DEALT WITH ON SUNDAYS THAT WEST COVINA POLICE DEPARTMENT WAS HIGHER TO DO TRAFFIC CONTROLS ONE DAY A WEEK.
THE AMAZONS NEEDS THAT THEY NEED IT.
NOT BECAUSE IT'S BENEFITED THE CITY, IT'S BENEFITING THE TENANT AND IT IS NOT AGAINST SOMETHING.
AGAIN, MR. LAMB, I, TO AND RETIRE.
I COME ON TO RETIREMENT BECAUSE I DON'T KNOW WHY.
MAYBE I'M CRAZY TO HELP THE COMMUNITY.
THAT'S WHAT I'M HERE FOR TO HELP THIS COMMUNITY.
WHETHER IT'S IN WEST COVINA, I USED TO REPRESENT THIS AREA IN MANY OTHER CITIES AND THE WATER.
SO YOU MIGHT KNOW ME MORE AS THE WATER GUY FROM THE UPPER SAN GABRIEL VALLEY, MUNICIPAL WATER DISTRICT OR VALLEY COUNTY WATER, BECAUSE THAT'S WHERE I SERVED FOR 23 YEARS AS AN ELECTED OFFICIAL.
BUT MORE OF IT IS I'M A POSTING IT BECAUSE IT'S NOT THE RIGHT PLACE.
NOT AS NOT BECAUSE IT'S AMAZON OR ANYBODY ELSE IS NOT IN THE RIGHT LOCATION IS ALSO A FORMER BOARD MEMBER OF OURS.
IT'S NOT INDUSTRIES, NOT EVERYONE.
DELL'S NEVER, AGAIN, THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR YOUR TIME AND HAVE A GREAT EVENING JD EVENING.
UM, LET ME ADMIT THAT I WAS A LITTLE BIT COWARDLY TO COME UP HERE AND SAY THAT I WAS IN FAVOR OF AMAZON.
UM, BUT I AM, I HAVE MIXED FEELINGS, HOWEVER, AND I HAVE A CONCERN.
UM, THE CONCERN HAS BEEN EXPRESSED IN MANY WAYS.
THE GENTLEMAN THAT JUST LEFT EXPRESSED IT PRETTY WELL.
AND THAT'S THE QUALITY OF LIFE, THE EFFECT OF QUALITY OF LIFE.
MY PHONE, I HEARD THE APPLICANT REPRESENTATIVE SAY THAT CERTAIN ROADS HAVE TO BE REQUIRED FOR TRAVELING.
I HAPPEN TO LIVE ON ONE OF THE MINOR, OUR CHILLERS ARTERIES ARTERIES OF THE CITIES IN WEST COVINA.
YOU ALSO MENTIONED THAT THE TRUCKS, THE LARGER TRUCKS THAT MS HANG REFERRED TO WOULD BE TRAVELING AS SOUSA TO SAN BERNARDINO OVER TO THE AMAZON CENTER.
BUT I KNOW FROM EXPERIENCE THAT THESE SMALLER ARTERIAL ROADS ARE BEING USED BY LARGER TRUCKS, THAT IS LARK ALLEN AND THE LYNDA AS A SHORTCUT, MAYBE THIS QUESTION WOULD BE BETTER ANSWERED BY THE CITY MANAGER AT A DIFFERENT TIME, PROBABLY IN THE SAME LOCATION, BUT A DIFFERENT TIME IS LARK ALLEN AND BELINDA, WHICH IS NOW BEING USED AS A SHORTCUT TO CIRCUMVENT THE HEAVY TRAFFIC THAT BUSINESS AND COMMERCIAL VEHICLES HAVE TO EXPERIENCE TRAVELING AS SUSA IN GLENDORA
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WITH THE AMAZON LARGER VEHICLES BE PROHIBITED FROM USING THOSE MINOR STREETS BECAUSE THEY'RE LINED WITH RESIDENCE POEMS. THEY'RE NOT, I DON'T THINK TRADITIONALLY INTENDED TO BE USED AS MAJOR COMMUTING, UH, STREETS.SO I'M HOPING THAT HE'LL BE ABLE TO EITHER HE'LL BE ABLE TO ANSWER IT.
OR THE CITY MANAGER WILL BE ABLE TO GIVE ME A PEACE OF MIND.
GIVE ME SOME PEACE OF MIND IN TERMS OF THE IMPACT THAT THE AMAZON LARGER VEHICLES WILL OR MAY HAVE ON THESE TWO MINOR ROAD AVENUES.
IS THERE ANYONE ELSE WOULD LIKE TO SPEAK AS OPPOSED TO THIS PROJECT? YOU HAVE HER FILL OUT A PINK CARD.
HI, UM, MY NAME IS CHRISTINE KOREA.
I LIVE ON GROVE CENTER, WHICH IS TWO STREETS, UH, SOUTH OF BADILLO.
I NOTICED THAT YOU SPOKE ABOUT THE ROUTE GOING UP AZUSA TO SAN BERNARDINO ROAD, BUT YOU NEVER SPOKE ABOUT, YOU ALSO SPOKE ABOUT THE VANS THAT WOULD GO IN AND OUT AND COULD TURN RIGHT AND LEFT THOSE, UH, VEHICLES THAT ARE GOING TO BE TURNING LEFT WILL MAKE THEIR WAY TO VINCENT.
AND THEY'LL BE GOING UP AND DOWN VINCENT, THAT WE'LL BE PASSING A LOT OF RESIDENTIAL STREETS AND THOSE VANS WILL MAKE THEIR WAY TO GROVE CENTER, WHICH IS A MAJOR SEGWAY IT'S IT'S RIGHT OFF OF VINCENT, WHERE WE, WE GET A LOT OF TRAFFIC THAT SPEEDS UP AND DOWN THOSE STREETS.
ANYWAY, UM, I CAN FORESEE THAT THERE'S GOING TO BE LOTS OF SHORTCUTS BEING TAKEN.
I ALSO AM CURIOUS AS TO THE ROUTE WHERE VINCENT IS AND GETTING ON AND OFF THE FREEWAY.
NOW, I, I, I SAW THAT YOU SAID THAT THE LARGE TRUCKS HAVE SPECIFIC ROUTES THAT WE'LL BE GOING NORTH ON, UM, AZUSA AND THAT'S THEIR DESIGNATED ROUTE OR THOSE LARGE TRUCKS, BUT WHO'S TO SAY, THEY'RE NOT GOING TO BE ON THE FREEWAY AND GET OFF ON VINCENT, MAKE A MISTAKE.
OH, REGULARLY AND GOING UP AND DOWN VINCENT THAT'S THAT'S RIDICULOUS.
I MEAN, THERE'S SO MANY RESIDENTIAL STREETS RIGHT OFF OF THAT.
THERE'S JUST, NO, THERE'S NO WAY THAT THAT CAN BE AVOIDED.
DOES ANYBODY HAVE ANY ANSWERS TO THAT? IT WAS THOSE, UH, ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS THAT, AND THE RESIDENTIAL, UH, AREA THERE THAT YOU GUYS ARE TALKING ABOUT NOT BEING AFFECTED BETWEEN 10 AND 10 O'CLOCK.
WHAT ABOUT AFTER 10 O'CLOCK SCHOOLS GET OUT AT TWO O'CLOCK THERE'S GOING TO BE LARGE AMOUNTS OF VANS, YOU KNOW, COMING IN AND OUT OF THOSE STREETS.
I MEAN, IT'S HARD ENOUGH TRYING TO BE SUPER, SUPER CAREFUL WHEN THOSE KIDS ARE, ARE ON THOSE STREETS.
IT'S NOT JUST GROWTH CENTER STREET.
IT'S IT'S ALSO THE, THE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL.
THAT'S I DON'T REMEMBER THE NAME OF IT.
IT'S JUST A LITTLE BIT NORTH OF GROVE CENTER.
THESE KIDS ARE ALL OVER THE STREETS, WALKING HOME FROM 12 O'CLOCK TO TWO 30 OR THREE O'CLOCK.
AND THEN YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT AZUSA.
YOU HAVE KIDS FROM TRAYWICK SCHOOL, WALKING THOSE STREETS, AND THOSE STREETS ARE SO CONGESTED AND IT'S NOT JUST TRAYWICK SCHOOL.
HOW DO YOU THINK IT'S GOING TO AFFECT OUR SCHOOL DISTRICTS? THIS IS JUST SO RIDICULOUS.
EVERYBODY SEEMS TO BE SO SURPRISED THAT WE GOT NO INFORMATION ON THIS.
WE GOT INFORMATION ON THIS READ DAYS AGO, FOUR DAYS AGO, WHEN THEY CAME TO THE DOOR, I MIGHT HAVE THAT WRONG.
IT WAS LAST WEEK, MAYBE THREE 40 SATURDAY.
THERE WAS A FLYER LEFT HANDED TO ME BY MY SON.
IF THE CITY KNEW, IF MORE PEOPLE IN THE CITY KNEW ABOUT IT, YOU PROBABLY WOULD HAVE MUCH BIGGER TURNOUT.
YOU KNOW, I I'M I'M I'M HEARTBROKEN.
I MEAN, I WISH I KNEW MORE INFORMATION ABOUT AMAZON COMING TO TOWN.
I WISH I HAD A LONGER PERIOD OF TIME.
DID YOU RESEARCH AND REALLY KNOW
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THAT I I'M STRONGLY OPPOSING IT, BUT IN THIS SHORT PERIOD OF TIME, I TOTALLY OPPOSE IT.IT'S JUST, I MEAN, I ORDER FROM AMAZON.
I'M NOT, I'M NOT GONNA STAND HERE AND BE A HYPOCRITE ABOUT IT, BUT THIS IS A RESIDENTIAL NEIGHBOR.
THERE'S SO MUCH DEAD SPACE THERE.
IT'S RIGHT NEXT TO THE FREEWAY.
I JUST, THIS IS, THIS IS HEARTBREAKING.
YOU KNOW, THIS WEST COVINA SHOULD BE A LOVELY RESIDENTIAL NEIGHBORHOOD.
I'M NOT SAYING AMAZON WILL, YOU KNOW, TO COMPLETELY TAKE AWAY FROM THAT.
BUT YOU KNOW WHAT, THIS REALLY NEEDS TO BE LOOKED AT FOR A LONGER PERIOD OF TIME.
I THINK THAT THERE'S OTHER THINGS THAT COULD HAVE BEEN LOOKED AT.
I MEAN, I DON'T KNOW IF I'M, IF I GOT THIS WRONG, BUT YOU SAID $80,000 A YEAR IN TAX TAXES WILL BE GAINED TO WEST COVINA.
AM I WRONG ABOUT THAT A YEAR? I MEAN, THAT SEEMS LIKE NOTHING.
I MEAN, COME ON PEOPLE, THERE'S, THERE'S A LOT OF DEAD SPACE BUILD SOME MORE HOMES, YOU KNOW, BRING SOME YOUNGER POPULATION HERE.
I THINK THAT'S ABOUT ALL I HAVE TO SAY, OH MY TIME'S UP.
AT THIS TIME, WE'LL ALLOW REBUTTAL FROM THE APPLICANT.
UM, UH, I THINK BECAUSE THERE'S SO MANY QUESTIONS ON ANSWERED STEEL AND IT'S PROBABLY BEST FOR THE APPLICANT TO PUT THIS IN A PRESENTATION FORMAT THAT I WILL MAKE A MOTION THAT WE TABLE THIS ON TOP, OF COURSE, IN THE CORNERS OF THE CITY STAFF AND THE APPLICANT THAT WE TABLED US UNTIL THE NEXT MEETING.
SO ELISA APPLICA CAN PUT ALL THE INFORMATION HE GOT TODAY INTO FACTUAL RECITATION.
PARDON ME? THE QUESTION AGAIN? UM, MY MOTION WAS THAT I'M SORRY.
I HEARD THE MOTION, BUT THE QUESTION OF ME ADDITIONAL TIME FOR, TO ANSWER, SHE PUT A PRESENTATION TOGETHER TO ANSWER ALL THE QUESTIONS RIGHT NOW TO ANSWER THESE QUESTIONS AND ISSUES RAISED.
UM, I'M JUST, I'M GOING TO JUST MAKE A GENERAL COMMENT.
IT'S PROBABLY BEST FOR YOU TO REACH OUT TO THOSE INDIVIDUAL HOMEOWNER HOMEOWNERS IN THAT AREA, AND THEN COME BACK AND MAKE A STRONG POINT.
I PERSONALLY BELIEVE THAT THIS WILL CREATE GREAT OPPORTUNITY IN OUR COMMUNITY, BUT THERE'S UNANSWERED QUESTIONS THAT THE LOCAL COMMUNITY HAS AND THEY SHOULD BE ANSWERED.
NOW AT THE SAME TIME, I DO BELIEVE, UM, THAT IF WE, IF WE DON'T TAKE AN OPPORTUNITY LIKE THIS, THAT THIS WILL BECOME THE NEXT HOOTERS SITE, WHICH BECAME INFESTED IN 30 AND UNMANAGED ON MATEEN AND IN A FAITH COMMUNITY CHURCH WANTS TO SELL THIS PROPERTY.
THEY HAVE EVERY RIGHT TO DO SO.
AND, AND WE DON'T WANT THIS PROPERTY JUST TO SIT THERE AND HAVE THE OPPORTUNITY FOR INDIVIDUALS TO BREAK IN AND COMMIT CRIMES AND SO FORTH.
BUT AT THE SAME TIME, I DO BELIEVE THAT THERE'S SOME, SO MANY UNANSWERED QUESTIONS THAT MANY OF THE RESIDENTS IN THAT SURROUNDING COMMUNITY STILL HAVE.
AND IT'S PAUL YOU BESS BY THE END OF THIS, TO ME, INSTEAD OF BEING HERE FOR ANOTHER TWO HOURS AND HOWEVER WE RESIDENTS HERE RATE, BUT MOST IMPORTANTLY, THERE'S UNANSWERED QUESTIONS.
SO I IT'S A COMMENT THAT IT'S PROBABLY BEST TO PUT IT IN THE PRESENTATION AGAIN.
SO THIS COMMISSION CAN KNOW FOR SURE THAT EACH OF THESE ANSWERS HAVE BEEN ANSWERED.
AND THEN MAYBE YOU HAVE AN OPPORTUNITY TO VISIT THE LOCAL APARTMENTS THERE AND THE LOCAL SURROUNDING HOUSES.
I KNOW THERE, I THINK CITY STAFF HAS THOSE HOUSING, HOW HOUSES IN COVINA OR WEST GALENA, THOSE HOUSES ARE LOCATED IN WEST SWEDEN ACROSS THE STREET, ACROSS THE STREET.
HOW WAS, HOW MUCH TIME DID YOU THE RESIDENTS SKELETON AND THEN HOW WERE THEY NOTIFIED? HALF OF IT? HOW ARE THE RESIDENTS NOTIFIED AND HOW MUCH TIME WERE THEY GIVEN? HOW MUCH NOTICE THIS ENTIRE PROCESS INVOLVED PUBLIC HEARING NOTICES.
SO UNDER STATE LAW, EVERY PROPERTY OWNER, WITHIN 300 FEET OF THE BOUNDARIES OF THE PROPERTY, PLEASE ALLOW HIM TO SPEAK.
MAY I CONTINUE TO ADAM? SO 300 FEET FROM THE EXTERIOR BOUNDARIES OF THE PROPERTY, ALL PROPERTY OWNERS, ALL TENANTS OF RENTALS, AND THAT'S IN COVINA AND WEST COVINA ALL THE WAY AROUND THOSE NOTICES WERE FIRST SENT OUT.
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WHEN THE MITIGATED NEGATIVE DECLARATION WAS FINISHED AND AVAILABLE, NOTICE WENT OUT TO, EVERYONE SAID, IT'S AVAILABLE TO READ FOR THE NEXT 30 DAYS.PLEASE READ IT HERE IT IS ONLINE.
IF YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS OR COMMENTS, PLEASE SUBMIT THOSE WE RECEIVED.
OR THE CITY STAFF, NOT ME SAID, HE'S RECEIVED SEVERAL COMMENTS.
EVERY ONE OF THOSE COMMENTS THAT WERE RECEIVED WAS RESPONDED TO BY ALL THE CONSULTANTS IN THIS ROOM WITH ANSWERS AS WE MOVE FORWARD, THEN TO THIS FIRST HEARING TONIGHT, IN ADDITION TO THE PUBLIC OUTREACH THAT WE HAD, WHICH I BELIEVE WAS FAR MORE EXTENSIVE THAN CONVEYED TONIGHT, BECAUSE WE SENT NOTICES AGAIN TO ALL OF THESE, UH, AREA RESIDENTS, TENANTS, EVERY TENANT IN LARK, ELLEN RECEIVED OUR COMMUNITY OUTREACH NOTICES.
WE HAD AN ONLINE PRESENTATION TO EXPLAIN THIS PROJECT.
I GAVE IT, THERE WERE ONLY SIX NON-CITY EMPLOYEES THAT SIGNED UP AND WATCH THAT.
SO I UNDERSTAND WHAT PEOPLE ARE SAYING TONIGHT.
I UNDERSTAND SIR, WHAT YOUR CONCERNS ARE.
WHAT I'M TRYING TO CONVEY IS WE'VE BEEN ASKED TO DO THIS OUTREACH.
WE HAVEN'T ELICITED ANY MAJOR CONCERNS OR COMMENTS OF ANY EXTENT TONIGHT.
YOU'VE HAD MANY PEOPLE SPEAK, BUT YOU'VE HAD, AND I'M NOT BELITTLING THIS ONLY 13 PEOPLE SPOKE TONIGHT.
THIS IS PRETTY TYPICAL OF ANY MEETING I WORK ON.
BISSERA UH, YOU EACH HAD A TIME TO SPEAK.
SO PUBLIC NOTICE HAS BEEN SENT OUT FOR THIS HEARING AS WELL.
THEY WENT OUT TO THE SAME 300 FOOT RADIUS.
EVERYONE WHO LIVED OR RENTS IN COVINA IN WEST COVINA AROUND ALL THE PROPERTIES YOU RECEIVED, I THINK A TOTAL OF FOUR OR FIVE LETTERS.
AND TONIGHT, AGAIN, 13 PEOPLE FOR THE NUMBER OF PEOPLE THAT WERE NOTIFIED, THIS IS NOT A SIGNIFICANT NUMBER.
AND I UNDERSTAND THAT THERE'S THE APPEARANCE THAT MORE QUESTIONS NEED TO BE ANSWERED.
I'M PREPARED RIGHT NOW TO GO THROUGH EVERY SINGLE ONE OF THESE THAT WERE RAISED AND GIVE YOU THE ANSWERS THAT I FEEL RIGHT.
AGAIN, REFLECT THE ACCURACY OF ALL THE DOCUMENTS YOU'VE HAD.
CITY EMPLOYEES REVIEW ALL THESE DOCUMENTS.
YOU'VE HAD TWO SETS OF CONSULTANTS ON EVERY SECRET DOCUMENT.
WE'RE ACTIVELY WORKING WITH THE ATTORNEY OF THE LIKE ARC ELLEN COMPLEX.
UH, WE'VE ALREADY INDICATED A WILLINGNESS TO COME UP WITH SUGGESTED CONDITIONS, MAYBE THAT WORK OUT BETWEEN US, BUT WE RECEIVED THAT LETTER TODAY.
AND, UH, THAT'S WHY IF I MAY TAKE THE TIME FOR A FEW MINUTES HERE TO GO BACK THROUGH SOME OF THESE, IT MIGHT GIVE YOU SOME GREATER COMFORT LEVEL.
IF I CAN AT LEAST EXPLAIN OUR SIDE OF IT.
SO LIKE FOR EXAMPLE, ON AMAZON'S WEBSITE, IT STATES THAT ALONG WITH THE STARTING PAY OF AT LEAST $15 PER HOUR, MORE THAN DOUBLE THE FEDERAL MINIMUM WAGE, AMAZON OFFERS A RANGE OF GREAT BENEFITS TO SUPPORT EMPLOYEES IN ELIGIBLE FAMILY MEMBERS, INCLUDING DOMESTIC PARTNERS AND THEIR CHILDREN.
THESE COMPREHENSIVE BENEFITS BENEFITS BEGIN ON DAY ONE AND INCLUDE HEALTH CARE COVERAGE WILL LEAVE AND WAYS TO SAVE FOR THE FEATURE AND UNDER RESOURCES TO IMPROVE THE HEALTH AND WELLBEING.
BUT, SO THIS IS JUST AN EXAMPLE, AND IT'S MY RECOMMENDATION THAT INSTEAD OF YOU VERBALLY GIVING THIS INFORMATION FOR ANOTHER HOUR OR TWO, THAT YOU COME BACK PREPARED AND YOU BRING, YOU BRING THESE FACTUAL INFORMATION AND YOU PUT IT IN A POWERPOINT BECAUSE IN END OF THE DAY, PEOPLE WANT ANSWERS.
AND, UH, WE'RE NOT SAYING THAT WE DON'T SUPPORT THE PROJECT OR ANYTHING LIKE THAT.
WELL, I'M JUST SAYING THIS THAT'S PAULIE BESS TO PUT ALL THE GREAT SUCCESS THAT AMAZON HAS DONE FOR LOCAL COMMUNITIES, WHICH I KNOW EXISTS.
UH, AND YOU PUT IT IN A PRESENTATION FORMAT.
FOR EXAMPLE, DRONES, WE ALL KNOW THAT AMAZON CAN OPEN UP TOMORROW AND MAKE DRONES, UH, IN, PUT THEM IN THE AIR.
THEY'LL HAVE TO GET THROUGH OR HAVE TO GO DO A VARIANCE PROCESS AND CITY APPROVAL PROCESS.
UM, SO IT'S, UM, IT'S JUST MY RECOMMENDATION THAT, AND AS MY MOTION THAT WE TABLE, THIS SUED THE NEXT UPCOMING, UH, PLANNING COMMISSION, MEANING IF CITY STAFF COULD HANDLE IT CITY STOP, CAN YOU HANDLE THIS AT THE NEXT PLANNING COMMISSION MEETING? NOT AT THE NEXT PLANNING COMMISSION MEETING, IT WOULD HAVE TO BE THE, UM, WE HAD SEVERAL APPLICANTS, UM, SEVERAL, I GUESS, APPLICANTS THAT, THAT WERE WILLING TO MOVE THEIR, THEIR, UM, ITEMS TO THE NEXT PLAN.
SO WHAT THEY, WHAT THEY WOULD THAT BE
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SO SHARED WITH SARAH? SO BE THE SECOND THERE'LL BE LIKE, WHAT WAS THAT AUGIE, UH, TOBER THE LAST WEEK BEFORE THE LAW OR WHATEVER TOBER 19 OR 12 AI COMMENT BEFORE THE MOTION GOES FURTHER, SIR, IT GETS IT JUST FROM THIS.I THINK IT WAS FROM THE STANDPOINT, FROM THE STANDPOINT THAT THERE ARE ESCROW OBLIGATIONS RIGHT NOW OCCURRING AND A CONTINUANCE TO WHAT YOU'RE ASKING FOR.
WELL, SERIOUSLY DAMAGED THE ABILITY FOR THIS PROJECT TO GO FORWARD.
I'M TELLING THE ABSOLUTE TRUTH.
I'M SORRY, I COULDN'T HEAR IT BECAUSE PEOPLE ARE SPEAKING.
WHAT WAS THAT LAST? I'M SAYING THAT SINCE WE'VE GONE THROUGH THIS FOR ALMOST TWO YEARS, THERE ARE ESCROW DEADLINES, UH, ARRIVING VERY QUICKLY WITH THE SELLER.
AND IT WAS ABSOLUTELY VITAL THAT WE GET TO THIS HEARING TONIGHT.
THAT WAS IMPRESSED UPON THE NEED THROUGH STAFF IN THE CITY MANAGEMENT, WHY THEY MOVED OTHER ITEMS OFF THIS AGENDA TO GET US ON HERE.
IF WE HAVE TO GO INTO A CONTINUANCE, MOST LIKELY THIS PROJECT MAY BE SERIOUSLY DAMAGED AND OR MAY DIE.
AND I, AS SUCH, I WOULD GREATLY APPRECIATE AT LEAST THE OPPORTUNITY TONIGHT TO RESPOND TO SOME OF THESE COMMENTS SO THAT I CAN AT LEAST PROVIDE SOME GREATER COMFORT.
AND I DO RESPECT COMMISSIONER GUTIERREZ REQUESTS VERY MUCH SO.
AND IF WE HAD AN ABUNDANCE OF TIME IN THIS ESCROW PROCESS, I HAVE NO PROBLEM WITH THAT, BUT I'VE BEEN INSTRUCTED TONIGHT THAT WE, UNLESS YOU SEE ANY OTHER TIMEFRAME.
WE ARE WITHIN WEEKS OF THE CLOSE OF ESCROW DEADLINE.
AND IF YOU'RE TALKING TO CONTINUE IN SUCH AS THIS, UM, YOU MAY LOSE YOUR AMAZON COMPLETELY.
IF THAT'S THE INTENT OF THE COMMUNITY THAT'S PRESENT, THAT MAY BE THEIR PURPOSE.
WE THINK IT'S A VERY GOOD PROJECT FOR THE CITY.
AND I'M NOT TRYING TO PUT ANY UNDUE PRESSURE ON YOU, SIR.
WELL, I SHOW IT'S JUST A RECOMMENDATION, BUT, UM, LET'S JUST SAY, IF YOU WERE TO PUT THIS IN A POWERPOINT PRESENTATION, HOW MANY, HOW LONG WOULD IT TAKE YOU A DAY OR TWO OR, UM, JUST, JUST AS JUST THINKING OUT LOUD, LIKE MY, MY NEXT QUESTION WOULD BE THAT IF, IF IT WAS POSSIBLE ISN'T IS IT POSSIBLE TO MAYBE DO LIKE A, IF WE WERE TO GIVE THEM A COUPLE, OH, MAINLY ALL THIS WEEK TOO.
WHEN IS YOUR ESCROW DEADLINE NEXT WEEK? OR DID WE GET OUT THERE? OKAY.
SO AS MY, MY, MY DOT OUT LOUD IS THAT IF WE WERE TO, LET'S JUST SAY, GIVE YOU THIS REMAINING WEEK TO DO SOME OUTREACH AND PUT THIS PRESENTATION TOGETHER.
AND IF, IF THE CHAIR WAS OKAY, MAYBE WE COULD, MAYBE WE COULD CALL FOR LIKE A SPECIAL MEETING FOR THIS ITEM.
AND THEN, AND THEN HEAR IT AT A SPECIAL MEETING AND SO FORTH.
IS HE GOING TO NEED ANYTHING ADDITIONAL TO WHAT HE'S DOING RIGHT NOW IS THIS REBUTTAL JUST TO THE CONCERNS OF THE RESIDENTS.
SO I DON'T KNOW THAT HE NEEDS A POWERPOINT FOR THAT.
AND, AND IT'S NOT, PLEASE DON'T CONSIDER ME TO BE REBUTTING AN ARGUMENT.
I JUST WOULD HOPE TO CLARIFY SOME OF THE STATEMENTS MADE FOR YOU TO MAKE A BETTER DECISION, HAVING BOTH SIDES TO THESE OPINIONS.
AND I RESPECT YOU GREATLY FOR YOUR COMMENTS, BUT SO I'LL RECALL MY MOTION AND SEEKER GO AHEAD AND RE REBUFF AND, AND I WILL STAY HERE AS LATE AS YOU WOULD LIKE, OH, THAT'S HOW IMPORTANT THIS IS.
THIS IS VERY, VERY IMPORTANT TO US.
WE HAD HOPED TO BE AT A HEARING HERE IN JUNE AND WE'RE NOW IN SEPTEMBER, AND THIS IS AT A DRASTIC POINT IN TIME.
SO WITH THAT, PLEASE LET HIM SPEAK.
SO I WILL TRY TO BE AS BRIEF AS POSSIBLE.
SO SPEAKER NUMBER ONE, AGAIN, I'LL JUST GO THROUGH THE 12, UH, MR. MARTINEZ.
UM, HE TALKED ABOUT UNION JOBS AND THE LIKE, I NEED TO EMPHASIZE THIS IS A LAND USE PROCESS, CONSIDERATIONS PROPOSAL OF A LAND USE OF CONVERTING THE PROPERTY TO INDUSTRIAL AND AN INDUSTRIAL USER.
I HAVEN'T ANY CONTROL NOR DOES THE DEVELOPER, NOR DOES THE CITY TO CONTROL WAGES, BENEFITS OR ANYTHING REGARDING LABOR WITHIN THIS FACILITY.
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IT WOULD BE NICE TO HAVE EVERYBODY PAID A LIVING WAGE OR GREATER.IT'S NOT WITHIN OUR JURISDICTION, NOR IS IT WITHIN THE PLANNING COMMISSION OR THE CITY COUNCIL WHEN IT COMES TO LAND USE DECISIONS.
SO I DON'T DISAGREE WITH WHAT ANYONE IS SAYING IN THE AUDIENCE ABOUT LABOR.
I MEAN, I, I GREW UP WORKING IN FAST FOODS BACK IN MY DAY.
I'M SO OLD, IT WAS A DOLLAR 60 AN HOUR.
IT'S NOT HIGH PAY, BUT FROM A STANDPOINT OF VIEW, I DON'T EVEN THINK YOUR CITY ATTORNEY WOULD AGREE THAT YOU CAN CONDITION A PROJECT BASED ON WAGES OR BENEFITS OR ANYTHING ELSE I COULD BE WRONG.
BUT IN A LAND USE, HEARING SUCH AS THIS, YOUR ROLE AS A COMMISSION TO RECOMMEND TO THE COUNCIL IS BASED ON THE APPROPRIATENESS OF THE LAND USE IS THE LAND USE COMPATIBLE WITH THE COMMUNITY? DOES IT BENEFIT THE COMMUNITY? UM, SO THAT WAS MY COMMENT TO THE SPEAKER.
NUMBER ONE, MR. MARTINEZ, AS, AS I CAN MAKE IT COMMIT, COME SPEAKER NUMBER TWO, MICHAEL DID NOT CATCH HIS LAST NAME.
UM, HE MADE COMMENTS ABOUT HE NEVER HEARD ABOUT THE HEARING.
AND AGAIN, I MENTIONED THE PUBLIC HEARING NOTICES FOR THE MITIGATED NEGATIVE DECLARATION.
THEY WENT TO THE HOMES ON THE NORTH SIDE OF SAN BERNARDINO ROAD.
HE MENTIONED ABOUT THEIR FOUR TRUCKS PER HOUR, UH, DURING THE DAYTIME, NO, IT, AGAIN, IT WAS FOUR TRUCKS TOTAL DURING THE DAYTIME FROM 7:00 AM TO 7:00 PM.
HE MENTIONED THE SIX DRIVEWAYS IN THE NORTH SIDE OF SAN BERNARDINO ROAD WOULD CREATE HAZARDS WITH THE VANS COMING OUT AGAIN.
THE VANS DO NOT DEPART UNTIL 10 O'CLOCK.
THOSE ROADS ON THE SOUTH SIDE IN THE CITY OF COVINA ARE EXIT AND ENTRY POINTS FOR PEOPLE WHO LIVE IN THE APARTMENTS AND THE RESIDENTS THERE, WE DON'T THINK IT'S GOING TO CREATE AN UNSAFE CONDITION.
THAT'S WHY THESE VANS HAVE BEEN SCHEDULED TO GO OUT IN SMALL BATCHES AND WAVES.
THAT'S WHAT THE CITY HAS A REVIEW IS REVIEWED THE CITY'S TRANSPORTATION DEPARTMENT POLICE DEPARTMENT.
EVERYBODY'S LOOKED AT THIS AND SAID, THIS IS THE SAFEST WAY TO DO THIS.
IF THERE ARE UNSAFE CONDITIONS OUT THERE RIGHT NOW, WE'RE ALSO TRYING TO HELP.
THERE ARE PEOPLE WHO PARK ON THE SOUTH SIDE OF SAN BERNARDINO ROAD.
THEY RUN ACROSS THE STREET FROM THEIR APARTMENTS SPECIFICALLY.
ONE OF THE REQUESTS FROM THE CITY OF COVINA WAS THAT WE PUT THE TRAFFIC SIGNAL IN AT CUTTER WAY TO MAKE A SAFE PEDESTRIAN CROSSING.
SO PEOPLE LIVE ON THIS OUTSIDE.
THEY MAY HAVE TO GO DOWN TO THE SIGNAL, BUT THEY HAVE A PEDESTRIAN CROSSING TO THE NORTH SIDE.
SO THESE ARE POSITIVE THINGS THAT WE'RE TRYING TO DO TO MAKE THIS THE MOST COMPATIBLE AND GOOD PROJECT FOR THE COMMUNITY.
UH, SPEAKER NUMBER THREE, SHERRY
UM, SHE, AGAIN, REFERRED TO THE FACT THAT, UH, SHE IS, DID NOT KNOW, OR SHE DIDN'T KNOW WE'VE SENT OUT NOTICES AGAIN TO EVERYBODY WITHIN 300 FEET AROUND AND THAT'S NOT 20 OR 30 PEOPLE THAT'S IN THE LOW HUNDREDS, I BELIEVE WAS THE LIST.
STAFF HAS THE LIST OF EVERY SINGLE PERSON THAT WAS MAILED PUBLIC NOTICES.
UM, SHE WENT TO KNOW ABOUT WHERE ARE THE EXTRA VAN'S GOING TO PARK IN THE AREA? YOU KNOW, THIS SITE HAS ENOUGH PARKING SHOULD ACCOMMODATE EVERYTHING IN THE FUTURE.
I, I DON'T KNOW WHERE SOME OF THESE QUESTIONS WHERE THEY'RE COMING FROM, WHY THEY'RE BEING USED AGAINST US TO DAMAGE US.
WE'VE NEVER SAID THERE WOULD BE VANS PARKED OFFSITE.
WE'VE SAID IT IT'S GOING TO ALL BE ACCOMMODATED ONSITE.
THAT'S BEEN THE PLANNING AND THE EFFORT THAT'S GONE INTO THIS SINCE DAY ONE.
UM, THAT ALSO A COMMENT THAT SHERRY MADE WAS THAT HOMES, UH, WOULD READ, BE REDUCED IN VALUE.
THERE IS ABSOLUTELY NO BASIS FOR THAT WHATSOEVER.
IF VANS OR TRUCKS CREATE UNDUE NOISE, I GUESS THERE WOULD BE A BASIS FOR IT.
BUT EVERY SINGLE STUDY IN EVERYTHING ABOUT THIS DESIGN HAS BEEN MADE.
SO IT WON'T CREATE ADVERSE IMPACTS, TRAFFIC WON'T BOTHER NEIGHBORS.
AND WE WON'T HAVE WHAT IS BEING PROPOSED.
I MEAN, ALL THESE STATEMENTS ARE BEING MADE OUT OF FEAR.
YET, IF YOU READ THE NOISE STUDY AND YOU READ THE TRAFFIC STUDIES PRODUCED BY ALL OF THESE VERY QUALIFIED PEOPLE, NOT ME, ALL OF THESE STUDIES SAY THAT THERE'S AN INSIGNIFICANT IMPACT ON NOISE AND TRAFFIC ON THE NEIGHBORS, ON THE HOMES IN THE AREA.
I REALLY TOOK A FENCE AND I WOULD THINK YOU WOULD TOO.
WHEN THE SAME SPEAKER SAID, YOU'RE THE NINTH, WORST CITY IN THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA.
I DIDN'T THINK IT WAS VERY FUNNY.
SO I DON'T KNOW WHO WANTS TO SAY THAT YOU'RE THE NINTH WORST, BUT I'LL TELL YOU, WE THINK YOU'RE ONE OF THE BEST.
AND WE PICKED YOUR CITY FOR THAT REASON.
AND THAT'S WHAT WE'RE HERE TONIGHT.
IF THE CITY DOESN'T WANT US, I DOUBT THAT VERY MUCH, MAYBE PEOPLE IN THE AUDIENCE ARE, BUT AGAIN, 13 PEOPLE SPOKE AND YOU HAVE ALMOST A HUNDRED THOUSAND PEOPLE IN YOUR CITY.
SO I THINK THERE ARE A LOT OF PEOPLE OUT THERE THAT PROBABLY DO SUPPORT US.
AND THEY'RE NOT HERE BECAUSE THEY ARE COMFORTABLE WITH WHAT WE'RE DOING.
YOUR FOURTH SPEAKER, UH, BRANDY DAVIS, I BELIEVE SHE JUST MADE COMMENTS ABOUT THE CARS ARE ACCELERATING AND FASTER AND
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CUT HER WAY.UM, AGAIN, WE'RE PUTTING A TRAFFIC SIGNAL AT CUTTER AND SAN BERNARDINO ROAD EXACTLY AS THE CITY OF COVINA AND ASKED BECAUSE THEY HAVE CONCERNS ABOUT THE DANGER OF THAT INTERSECTION CARS GOING NORTHBOUND ON CUTTER AND COVINA AND MAKING A LEFT TURN ON SAN BERNANDINO ROAD.
SO WE'RE ACCOMMODATING THEM TO MAKE THAT INTERSECTION, WHICH IS NOT SIGNALIZED CURRENTLY TO MAKE IT SIGNALIZED.
BILL ROBINSON WAS SPEAKER NUMBER FIVE.
HE KEPT SAYING THE SECRET, THE CALIFORNIA ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY APP DOCUMENTS ARE ALL VERY, AN INACCURATE THAT, UH, THERE ARE IMPACTS ON HOMES.
UM, IT'S NOT LEGAL UNDER SEQUEL.
THE PROCESS IS VERY SPECIFIC UNDER THE LAW.
AND THIS HAS BEEN FULLY FOLLOWED BY YOUR CITY AND YOUR STAFF.
YOU START OFF WITH, WHAT'S CALLED AN INITIAL STUDY.
SOMEBODY REFERRED TO THE CHECKLIST, THE CHECKLIST IS REVIEWED BY THE STAFF AND THE CONSULTANTS.
AND THE CHECKLIST SAYS OUT OF THOSE 20 CATEGORIES, IS THERE GOING TO BE A POTENTIAL IMPACT ON NOISE AND AIR AND SO FORTH FROM THEIR TECHNICAL STUDIES ARE PREPARED.
SO THE TECHNICAL STUDIES THAT WERE PRE PREPARED FOR THIS DOCUMENT WHERE THE TRAFFIC AIR QUALITY, NOISE, UM, SEWER AND OTHER THINGS, AND THOSE TECHNICAL STUDIES ALL CAME BACK AND SAID, THERE ARE NOT ANY SIGNIFICANT ADVERSE IMPACTS.
MINOR ARE INSIGNIFICANT UNDER THE LAW, TRADITIONALLY ACCEPTABLE WITH ANY NEW DEVELOPMENT AND DON'T OVER IMPACT ANY SEWER SYSTEM, THE STREETS AND SO FORTH.
EVERY ONE OF THESE DOCUMENTS, THEN THE CITY DECIDED THAT A MITIGATED NEGATIVE DECLARATION IS WARRANTED.
A MITIGATED NEGATIVE DECLARATION MEANS AN EIR IS NOT WARRANTED.
THIS PROJECT DOES NOT WARRANT HAVING AN EIR PREPARED.
AN ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT REPORT IS ONLY PREPARED WHEN THERE ARE POTENTIALLY SIGNIFICANT ADVERSE IMPACTS.
THIS ENTIRE PROCESS IS NOT IDENTIFIED A SINGLE POTENTIALLY ADVERSE ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT.
IT IS SO WELL DESIGNED AND SO WELL MITIGATED.
AND I, I FEEL SORRY THAT MANY PEOPLE ARE MAKING THESE ACCUSATIONS THAT ARE UNFOUNDED WITHOUT READING EVERYTHING.
BUT THAT IS THE FACT THEY'RE IN ALL THE DOCUMENTS THEY'VE BEEN AVAILABLE ONLINE FOR MORE THAN A MONTH AND A HALF.
AND PEOPLE HAVE THE RIGHT TO COMMENT ON THEM AND WHAT WE HAD FIVE LETTERS ON THE REVIEW OF THOSE DOCUMENTS.
AND TONIGHT WE HAVE 12 PEOPLE.
THAT'S NOT A LOT MY OPINION, SPEAKER NUMBER SIX, CHERYL, THE MANAGER OF LAKE COUNTY, UH, LARK, ELLEN APARTMENTS.
SHE SAID THEY WERE NOT NOTIFIED.
THEY WERE NOT INVOLVED IN THIS PROCESS, BUT THEN SHE TURNED RIGHT AROUND AND SAID, SHE PARTICIPATED IN THE ONLINE MEETING.
SHE DID, SHE WAS ONE OF THE PARTICIPANTS.
WE THOUGHT WE HAD SOME COMMUNICATION GOING WITH THEM.
WE THOUGHT THINGS WERE MOVING ALONG FAIRLY WELL.
WE EVEN HAD TWO RESIDENTS IN LARK, ELLEN, APPROACH US AND WANT TO KNOW INFORMATION ABOUT JOBS AT AMAZON, WHO THEY COULD CONTACT BECAUSE THEY LOVE THE IDEA OF COMING NEXT DOOR.
SO NOTICES WENT OUT TO ALL OF THE RESIDENTS IN THE LARK, ELLEN WITHIN 300 FEET.
AND UNTIL TODAY OR YESTERDAY, WHEN AN ATTORNEY APPEARED THAT HAS DROPPED THIS LETTER ON ALL OF US SAYING, ALL THESE THINGS ARE INACCURATE AND WRONG, WE DIDN'T THINK THERE WAS ANYTHING WRONG NOR DID CITY STAFF NOR DID THE CONSULTANTS.
SO WE'RE THOUGH MORE THAN HAPPY TO WORK WITH THAT ATTORNEY.
AND WE WILL TRY TO RESOLVE THINGS TO A GREAT DEGREE, BUT THESE ARE THINGS THAT WE CAN EASILY DO BETWEEN NOW AND THE CITY COUNCIL.
YOU ARE THE RECOMMENDING BODY.
ALL WE ARE ASKING FOR TONIGHT, AS YOU LOOK AT THIS PROJECT AS A LAND USE PROJECT, AND THAT YOU RECOMMEND TO THE CITY COUNCIL, THAT THEY VOTE ON THIS AND AN APPROVAL AT THE CITY COUNCIL MEETING, WE WILL THEN FINALIZE WHATEVER AGREEMENT WE NEED TO MAKE WITH LARK, ELLEN APARTMENTS, NEXT DOOR.
AND THE CITY COUNCIL MAKE A FINAL DECISION.
AS THE LAW SAYS ON A CHANGING THE GENERAL PLAN ON CHANGING THE ZONING ON APPROVING THE PRECISE PLAN, APPROVING THE PARCEL MAP AND THE DEVELOPMENT AGREEMENT WE SPEND A LOT OF TIME ON THAT DEVELOPMENT AGREEMENT IS WORTH $4 MILLION TO THE CITY OF WEST COVINA, $4 MILLION.
THAT'S MORE THAN 10% OF YOUR ANNUAL BUDGET.
AND WE'RE BEING TOLD OUT HERE BY SOME PEOPLE, OH, THAT WON'T EVEN COVER THE COST OF ASPHALTING A ROAD LIKE CAN TELL YOU, I HAVE NEVER SEEN ANY CITY OUT THERE RECEIVED $4 MILLION EVEN CLOSE TO THAT ON AN AMAZON PROJECT OR ANY OTHER PROJECT I'VE EVER WORKED ON BEFORE THIS, THE MOST, ANY CITY WANTED ASKED FOR.
AND WE GAVE WAS 350,000 AND THE CITY OF CYPRESS IN ORANGE COUNTY.
THAT IS A HUGE COMMITTEE YOU'D BENEFIT.
AND WE FEEL THAT THAT TAKES SERIOUS, UH, LOOKING AT FROM THE STANDPOINT THAT
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YES, FINANCIALLY, YOUR CITY NEEDS SOME ASSISTANCE, BUT YOU'RE NOT THE WORST CITY.YOU'RE NOT THE NINTH WORST IN THE STATE AND THIS WILL HELP.
AND THAT'S WHAT WE'RE HOPING TO DO AND MAKE YOUR CITY GIVE, YOU KNOW, SOME ASSISTANCE.
SPEAKER NUMBER SEVEN, DEAN RICHARD, YOU SAID HE WAS CONCERNED ABOUT THE TRAFFIC AND THE FACT THERE WAS NO UPWARD MOBILITY, UM, SORRY.
HE REFERRED TO THE TRAFFIC AS BEING HOSTILE TO CHILDREN AND IN THE LIGHT.
WELL, YOU KNOW, THE TRAFFIC, AS I STATED BEFORE, AMAZON ALREADY EXISTS.
AMAZON DELIVERS IN YOUR CITY, THE DELIVERY VANS ARE THROUGHOUT YOUR CITY.
AND WE'VE HEARD THAT FROM PEOPLE IN THE AUDIENCE, THEY'RE HERE, WHETHER THEY'RE DISPATCHED FROM THIS BUILDING OR ELSEWHERE, THEY'RE ON YOUR CITY STREETS.
AND WHETHER THEY STOP INSIDE LARK, ELLEN, AND NASHVILLE, THEY CAN USE HER RESTROOM OR NOT, NOT MY CONCERN, BUT YES, THERE WILL BE RESTROOMS ON THIS PROJECT FOR DELIVERY VAN DRIVERS TO ACCESS.
THEY CAN GO INTO THE BUILDING.
BUT THE FACT IS THAT THESE ARE PEOPLE IN THE CITY THAT ARE AMAZON CLIENTS OR MEMBERS, AND PROBABLY MANY OF YOU ORDER ONLINE, BUT THERE ARE A WHOLE LOT OF BUSINESSES IN THIS CITY WHO BUY THEIR SUPPLIES THROUGH AMAZON.
SO THE COMMENT THAT THIS WILL WILL SHUT DOWN THE MALL.
IF THE MODEL IS GOING TO BE SHUT DOWN, THAT WOULD HAVE HAPPENED A LONG TIME AGO.
AMAZON HAD ITS PEAK SALES TIME DURING THE COVID SHUT DOWN.
YOU KNOW, THE PURCHASES ARE GOING DOWN RIGHT NOW.
THEY ARE AN ADDITIONAL SERVICE AND A BENEFIT TO YOUR COMMUNITY.
THIS IS NOT MEANT TO SHUT ANYONE DOWN.
THAT WAS THE ARGUMENT YEARS AGO MADE BY WALMART, THAT WALMART WOULD SHUT EVERYBODY ELSE DOWN.
AMAZON'S HERE TO SERVE YOU, YOUR, YOUR CONSTITUENTS, YOUR HUNDRED AND SOME THOUSAND POPULATION, THE CITY THEY'RE THE ONES SERVED BY AMAZON.
AND THAT'S, WHO'S GOING TO BENEFIT HERE.
AMAZON WANTS TO BE A GOOD MEMBER OF YOUR COMMUNITY.
THAT'S WHY THEY'RE HERE REACHING OUT.
AND YES, I DO REPRESENT AMAZON.
I'M NOT AN EMPLOYEE, BUT I'M AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE.
I'VE SPOKEN AT MANY OTHER CITY COUNCIL MEETINGS ON BEHALF OF AMAZON, NOT EVERYTHING THAT AMAZON DOES DO.
I KNOW THERE ARE PROPRIETARY SIDES OF BUSINESSES.
I CAN'T TALK ABOUT BECAUSE QUITE FRANKLY, I DON'T KNOW ALL THE BENEFITS THE EMPLOYEES MAKE.
I'M A LAND USE SPECIALIST, A SPECIALIST IN ENVIRONMENTAL LAW, YOU KNOW, I'M, I TESTIFY IN COURT AND THE LIKE, AND I DO ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT FOR CITIES.
I DON'T KNOW THE LEVEL OF BENEFITS THAT THESE EMPLOYEES GET, BUT $15 AN HOUR TO ME, AT LEAST FOR A NEW JOB IS BETTER THAN PROBABLY WHAT'S PAID DOWN THE STREET AT MCDONALD'S OR DEL TACO OR ANY OTHER FAST FOOD.
AND THEN THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA, THE MINIMUM WAGE IS GOING UP IN TWO MORE YEARS.
I BELIEVE THE TEAMSTERS WILL KNOW, OR WHAT IS IT? $22 AN HOUR.
SO WHEN THE STATE RATE GOES UP THIS WELL TOO, BUT I, THAT IS NOT MY CONCERN, NOR IT SHOULD BE YOURS.
AND I'M SORRY TO SAY THAT, BUT THIS BUSINESS SHOULD NOT BE JUDGED ON THE SALARIES IT'S GOING TO PAY AND THE BENEFITS IT'S GOING TO PAY.
UH, SPEAKER NUMBER SEVEN, DEAN RICHARD, I'M SORRY.
HE WAS TALKING ABOUT THE SPEAKER NUMBER EIGHT.
THERE'S JUST A FEW MORE TOBIAS.
UM, HE WAS THE GENTLEMAN WHO LIVES IN LARK, LARK, ELLEN APARTMENTS.
UM, HE SPOKE ABOUT THE $15 HOUR.
UH, HE REFERRED TO THE FACT THAT HE SPENT SOME OF THIS MONEY ON FIXING SIDEWALKS AND THE LIKE THEIR CONDITIONS OF APPROVAL IN HERE ON THIS PROJECT SAY EVERY BROKEN, A CRACKED SIDEWALK IN FRONT OF AMAZON ON SAN BERNARDINO ROAD AND BDO HAS TO BE RIPPED OUT AND REPLACED.
SO AMAZON HAS TO FIX ALL THE SIDEWALKS UP AND DOWN.
WE'LL MAKE IT BETTER THAN FOR PEDESTRIANS.
I DON'T KNOW WHAT HE'S REFERRING TO ABOUT WHILE THE SIDEWALKS BEING BROKEN IN THE AREA.
UM, HE IS SAYS, HE'S CONCERNED ABOUT NOISE.
I, AGAIN, WHEN ALL THE EXPERTS SAY, IT'S NOT GOING TO HAVE AN IMPACT.
I DON'T KNOW WHAT MORE I CAN TELL YOU.
I, I CAN GO BACK AND IN TWO WEEKS, COME BACK WITH ANOTHER PRESENTATION.
I CAN TELL YOU, I'M GOING TO BE SAYING THE SAME THING.
THAT'S WHAT EXISTS IN ALL OF THESE DOCUMENTS.
UH, LISA LET'S SEE SPOKESWOMAN, UH, LISA, OUR ATTORNEY FOR LARK, ELLEN NEXTDOOR.
SHE MENTIONED ABOUT THE DIFFERENT OPERATING CONDITIONS.
SHE WOULD LIKE, SOME ARE REASONABLE.
SOME ARE VERY UNREASONABLE, BUT WE'VE HAD THOSE CONVERSATIONS AND WE'RE STILL GOING TO HAVE THEM.
BUT THOSE OPERATING CONDITIONS ARE NOT NEEDED FOR LAND USE APPROVAL.
THEY ARE SPECIFIC TO WHAT LARK ELLEN WOULD LIKE IN RELATIONSHIP TO THEM.
YOU DON'T NEED TO PUT THEM IN TONIGHT.
IF THEY'RE ABSOLUTELY NEEDED, THE CITY COUNCIL CAN PUT THEM IN AS CONDITIONS.
BUT AT WHAT POINT DOES IT STOP ON A LAND USE BASIS THAT WE HAVE CONDITIONS THAT ALREADY REFLECT THE BUSINESS BECAUSE A BUSINESS PROJECT DESCRIPTION THAT YOU SEE OR LAND USE DESCRIPTION THAT YOU SEE IS THE PROJECT.
SO WHEN YOU APPROVE A BUSINESS, THIS ONE OR ANY OTHER, YOU DON'T HAVE TO WRITE CONDITIONS THAT SAY POTENTIALLY ALL THE THINGS IN
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THE WORLD THAT IT SHOULDN'T DO IN THE FUTURE.IT CAN'T DO REASONABLE CONDITIONS ARE THE ONES THAT HAVE SOME OBVIOUS NEED FOR CHANGING THE IMPACT.
BUT THERE ARE SO MANY MITIGATION MEASURES AND CONDITIONS IN THIS PROJECT ALREADY.
WE REACHED THE POINT WHERE, YOU KNOW, WHAT INNOVATION OR MOTIVATION IS FOR THIS BUSINESS TO EVER GROW A GENT.
NUMBER 10, I COULDN'T CATCH HIS NAME OUT THERE.
UM, HE WAS COMMENTING ABOUT THE COST OF STREETS AGAIN, AND THE BENEFITS.
AGAIN, THE SIGNAL ON CUTTER WAY, UH, YOU KNOW, FULLY BEING FULLY FUNDED BY GREENLAW PARTNERS.
ON BEHALF OF AMAZON, THE CITY OF COVINA IS NOT PAYING FOR THE ENTIRE CITY.
UH, SAN BERNARDINO ROAD IS IN THE CITY OF COVINA.
SO THE FRONT SIDEWALK ON SAN BERNARDINO ROAD AND ACROSS THE STREET IS COVINA.
YOU DON'T HAVE JURISDICTION OVER THAT STREET.
HOWEVER, BECAUSE THIS PROJECT HAS THE TRAFFIC ALIGNMENTS THAT ARE IN QUESTION WITH COVINA.
THAT'S WHAT WE'VE WORKED WITH.
THEY WORK WITH STAFF AND WE'VE ALL COME UP WITH THE SOLUTIONS ON THE DRIVEWAY LOCATIONS AND THE TRAFFIC SIGNAL.
THEY DON'T SEEM TO BE OVERLY CONCERNED.
WE'RE STILL GOING TO MEET WITH COVINA ON ANY NECESSARY REPAIRS TO THEIR STREET, BUT AMAZON GREENLAW PARTNERS HAS TO GET PERMITS FROM THE CITY OF COVINA FOR CUTTING AND MOVING DRIVEWAYS AND CLEANING UP THE ALIGNMENT WITH CUTTER, FOR EXAMPLE.
SO ALL OF THAT WILL WORK OUT AND THAT'S ALL TO THE CITY'S BENEFIT.
UH, GENTLEMEN, NUMBER 11, WHO SPOKE, UM, HE JUST, HE REFERRED TO SOME OF THE STREETS BY LARK, ELLEN.
OH, HE WAS TALKING ABOUT THE ILLEGAL TRUCK TRAFFIC DRIVING ON LARK, ELLEN, AS I UNDERSTAND THE STREET OF LARK, ELLEN, THAT PASSES FROM SAN BERNARDINO ROAD TO BDO IS NOT IN YOUR CITY.
YOUR CITY BOUNDARY LINE ENDS AGAIN AT THE EDGE OF THAT STREET, AS IT DOES WITH SAN BERNARDINO ROAD.
BUT REGARDLESS, ANY STREET, ANY TRUCK THAT IS THE COMMERCIAL RATING OVER THE 12,000 POUNDS HAS TO STAY ON A DESIGNATED TRUCK ROUTE.
IF NOT, AND AS CHRISTINE SAID IN THE NEXT COMMENTS, THEY CUT DOWN ANOTHER STREET.
YOU KNOW, YOU COULD CONDITION THIS PROJECT, BUT A DRIVER'S GOING TO DO WHAT THEY WANT TO DO.
THAT'S WHY THE WEST COVINA POLICE DEPARTMENT WRITES TICKETS AND IT'S A TRAFFIC ENFORCEMENT ISSUE.
SO IF A TRUCK COMES OFF OF THE 10 FREEWAY AT VINCENT VERSUS AZUSA AND COMES NORTH, YOU BETTER BELIEVE THEY'RE GOING TO END UP WITH A TICKET.
THAT'S WHAT THE POLICE DEPARTMENTS AND FOR YOUR TRAFFIC ENFORCEMENT DIVISION IS IN CHARGE OF CATCHING ANY TRUCK.
SO IF THEY'RE TRYING TO CUT THROUGH SOMEWHERE, THEN THE RESPONSIBLE THING TO DO IS LET THE POLICE DEPARTMENT KNOW THAT THIS IS OCCURRING SO THAT TRAFFIC DIVISION CAN SEND A MOTOR OFFICER OUT THERE.
USUALLY A MOTORBIKE OFFICER AND WRITE THE TICKETS.
AND THE LAST ONE WAS CHRISTINE, UM, LIVES ON THE SECOND STREET, SOUTH OF BDO, A VIDEO, UM, SHE REFERRED TO AZUSA STREET BEING CONGESTED ALREADY.
UH, SHE TALKED ABOUT CHILDREN CROSSING THE SCHOOL AND VARIOUS OTHER STREETS.
AGAIN, THE DELIVERY TRUCKS ARE NIGHTTIME, PRIMARILY THERE'S ONLY ONE AN HOUR THAT WOULD BE USING AZUSA.
SO IT WOULDN'T AFFECT ANYTHING THERE.
UH, THE DELIVERY VANS DISPERSE OUT.
THEY COME BACK AT VARIOUS TIMES, YOU HAVE TRAFFIC ON THE STREET.
NOW YOU'RE GOING TO HAVE MORE.
SAN BERNARDINO ROAD IS A REGIONAL TRUCK ROUTE, REGARDLESS OF WHAT HAPPENS HERE, YOU'RE GOING TO HAVE MORE TRUCKS PASSING THROUGH.
EACH CITY MEASURES INTERSECTIONS EVERY YEAR AND THEY HAVE WHAT'S CALLED A SAFE ROUTES TO SCHOOLS.
SO WHEREVER YOU HAVE AN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, THERE IS A DESIGNATED BY STATE LAW, SAFE ROUTES TO SCHOOLS WHERE THE POLICE DEPARTMENT HAS PALS THAT ARE DESIGNATED FOR CROSSWALKS.
THAT'S WHERE THEY PUT CROSSING GUARDS.
SO WHEN YOU SEE CROSSING GUARDS NEAR A SCHOOL, THAT'S A SAFE, DESIGNATED, SAFE ROUTES TO SCHOOL.
SO IF THERE'S AN UNSAFE SITUATION, THE CITY NEEDS TO KNOW ABOUT IT.
SO THE POLICE DEPARTMENTS, TRAFFIC DIVISION CAN ENSURE THAT THEY'RE ALWAYS SAFE ROUTES TO CROSS AND AZUSA OR A VINCENT OR ANY OTHER STREET.
AND I DON'T DISAGREE WITH HER CONCERNS, BUT IF SHE'S THAT CONCERN, HEY, THAT'S NOT AMAZON.
SHE GOTTA BE CALLING THE POLICE DEPARTMENT RIGHT NOW AND DISCUSSING THAT AND TRYING TO LET THEM KNOW BECAUSE MANY TIMES.
AND I KNOW POLICE DEPARTMENTS DON'T KNOW EVERYTHING THAT THE RESIDENTS KNOW OUT THERE.
SO THERE IS SOME OBLIGATION TO LET THEM HAVE THE FIRST CHANCE TO MAKE THOSE CHANGES.
SO AGAIN, I'M SORRY THAT I TOOK MORE OF YOUR TIME.
13 PEOPLE SPOKE, SORRY, 12, 11, OPPOSED ONE WAS IN FAVOR.
I RESPECT THE 11 IN A PROJECT THIS SIZE.
I DON'T SEE ANY OVERWHELMING OPPOSITION.
I THINK THIS IS AN EXCELLENT PROJECT AND I'M NOT JUST SAYING THAT BECAUSE IT'S ME AND I REPRESENT THIS OWNER.
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VERY HARD.OF COURSE, THE PEOPLE HAVEN'T SEEN IT FOR TWO YEARS.
IT TAKES A YEAR AND A HALF TO GO THROUGH VARIOUS SITE PLAN DESIGNS AND ENGINEERING STUDIES AND CAPACITY TO DECIDE WHAT CAN WORK HERE.
YOU KNOW, THERE ARE HUNDREDS AND HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS OF DOLLARS SPENT ON DESIGNING THIS PROJECT TO GET IT HERE TONIGHT.
AND AGAIN, I GREATLY RESPECT YOU.
COMMISSIONER GOODS HERE IS ASKING FOR MORE TIME.
BUT I AM SAYING WITH MY HAND RAISED, I ABSOLUTELY MEAN IT.
I'M NOT FABRICATING THIS AS I'VE BEEN ACCUSED OF IN THE AUDIENCE.
THE ESCROW IS RIGHT DOWN NEAR THE END, THIS PROPERTY OWNER, THE SELLER, THE CHURCH WOULD BE SERIOUSLY DAMAGED.
THIS BUYER WOULD BE SERIOUSLY DAMAGED IF WE DON'T MEET THE ESCROW COMMITMENTS.
AND I WAS INSTRUCTED BEFORE I CAME INTO HERE TONIGHT, WE NEED A RECOMMENDATION OUT OF YOU AND I, I'M SORRY TO PUT IT THAT WAY, BUT WE STRONGLY REQUEST THAT YOU PLEASE HELP US AND SUPPORT US.
IF THERE'S SOMETHING YOU FEEL IS MAYBE NOT COMPLETELY CLOSED UP, OR YOU'RE A LITTLE UNCOMFORTABLE ABOUT WE'LL ADDRESS IT AT CITY COUNCIL, BUT PLEASE WE'VE GOT TO GET TO THE CITY COUNCIL BY OCTOBER 19TH.
THAT'S THE DATE WE'VE BEEN SHOOTING FOR THAT CITY.
MANAGEMENT'S TRYING TO MAKE HAPPEN FOR US.
AND IF WE CAN'T MAKE IT, I, YOU KNOW, I'M DONE, I'M, I'LL BE OUT OF THIS.
I'M STILL HERE TO ANSWER QUESTIONS IF YOU WISH, BUT I DON'T KNOW WHAT ELSE I CAN SAY.
WHAT IS THE RADIUS THAT THEY, THAT MINIMUM? THEY HAVE TO NOTIFY RESIDENTS INTERFERENCE 300.
YOU KNOW, I, I SHOP AT AMAZON JUST LIKE PROBABLY EVERYBODY IN THIS ROOM, BUT I JUST, I DO BELIEVE IN SUPPORTING LOCAL BUSINESSES.
I ACTUALLY KNOW THE FACILITY VERY WELL BECAUSE MY CHILDREN WENT TO JUBILEE CHRISTIAN THERE, AND I WAS VERY INVOLVED.
THEY HAD OVER 10,000 ATTENDEES WEEKLY.
THAT'S WHY WE HAD TO HIRE THE POLICE OFFICERS TO DIRECT TRAFFIC.
NOT ONLY THAT THEY DID NOT JUST HAVE PRESCHOOL.
THEY HAD A NURSERY, THEY HAD PRESCHOOL.
AND THEY ALSO HAD KINDERGARTEN THROUGH EIGHTH GRADE THERE PLUS THEIR WEEKLY MEETINGS FOR 12 STEP COUNSELORS, TURNING POINT MINISTRIES, DESERT COUNSELING OUT OF THERE.
SO I AM VERY FAMILIAR WITH IT.
AND THERE, IT DOES HAVE A LOT OF TRAFFIC AS A CHURCH THAT BEING SAID, UM, MR. GUTIERREZ, UM, COMMISSIONER GUTIERREZ MADE MENTION OF A MOTION FOR, TO TABLE, BUT I DO NOT WANT TO DELAY, UH, THEIR MEETING TO THE CITY COUNCIL.
SO IS THERE ANOTHER DATE BEF PRIOR TO THAT, THAT WE CAN MEET AS A SPECIAL MEETING? UM, IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO, IF THE COMMISSIONERS WOULD LIKE TO CONTINUE THE ITEM, WE COULD CONTINUE IT TO A SPECIAL PLANNING COMMISSION MEETING.
UM, IF, UH, OCTOBER 4TH WORKS FOR YOU, IS THAT A MONDAY? THAT IS UPCOMING MONDAY.
YES, THAT IS, THAT'S FINE WITH ME.
I'D LIKE TO MAKE A MOTION TO TABLE THIS ON TOWEL MONDAY, OCTOBER 4TH, FOR A SPECIAL BEATING, UM, UH, TO BE HELD HERE IN THE COUNCIL CHAMBERS AT, UM, MADAM SHITTY OF A PREFERRED TIME, SEVEN 30, I THINK.
OR WHAT DO YOU PREFER? YOU GUYS HAVE A PREFERRED TIME? UM, I'LL BE FLYING BACK FROM OUT OF STATE.
SO I WOULD PREFER THAT IT BE EITHER AT SEVEN O'CLOCK.
UM, ARE YOU GUYS FINE WITH SEVEN O'CLOCK.
I'LL MAKE THE MOTION TO TABLE.
DOESN'T TELL OCTOBER 4TH FOR 7:00 PM HERE IN COUNCIL CHAMBERS.
CAN I SHOW YOUR CHERISHES IT TO TAYLOR TO CONTINUE? I'M SORRY TO CONTINUE IT TO OCTOBER 4TH AT 7:00 PM AND CONSOLE CHAMBERS IN THE CITY OF WEST COVINA.
I BELIEVE WE NEED A SECOND, MR. LAM, IS THAT A TIME AVAILABLE FOR YOU TO COME BACK OCTOBER 4TH, 7:00 PM.
AIRBUS SHERPA, SARAH? UH, YES, WE'LL BE BACK.
IT WOULD CERTAINLY HELP ME THIS MOMENT.
WHAT YOU EXPECT OF US FOR THAT MEETING? UH, I THINK, UH, ONCE AGAIN, IT'S A GREAT PROJECT.
I THINK, UH, PUT SOME OF THESE QUESTIONS IN, IN, IN THE PRESENTATION, PUT SOME OF THE STUFF THAT YOU COULD FIND ON AMAZON'S REP SITE ON THE PRESENTATION AND THAT'S GET IT DOCUMENTED AND LET'S, UH, GET THE FACTS OUT OF THE OPPORTUNITIES ARE OUT THERE FOR OUR RESIDENTS.
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AND, UH, YEAH.SO THIS TIME WE'RE GONNA CLOSE THE PUBLIC HEARING PAULINA.
UM, YOU WANT TO TAKE, WELL, YOU KNOW, WE DO HAVE A SECOND.
I NEED TO SAY WE NEED A SECOND ON THAT.
UM, SO WE HAVE A MOTION BY THE CHAIRS TO CONTINUE THE ITEM TO A SPECIAL PLANNING COMMISSION MEETING ON OCTOBER 4TH, 7:00 PM HERE AT THE COUNCIL CHAMBERS, UH, COMMISSIONER WILLIAMS, COMMISSIONER GUTIERREZ, COMMISSIONER HING, VICE CHAIR LEWIS.
I THINK MOTION PASSES THREE TO, YEAH.
CAN WE TAKE FIVE PLEASE? RESTAURANT? YOU'RE GOOD.
WHAT WERE YOU SAYING? I COULDN'T HEAR YOU.
IS THAT THE NEXT ONE? ARE WE, ARE WE GOING TO FINISH THEM ALL TONIGHT? I CAN'T HEAR YOU.
UM, JOANNE BURNS, OUR PLANNING MANAGER WILL PRESENT THE STAFF REPORT.
WE ARE STILL CONDUCTING BUSINESS.
THE MONITOR WENT UP, SO WE HAVE TO BRING IT BACK DOWN.
IF YOU GIVE US A MINUTE OR TWO.
THIS DILEMMA NEEDS SECURITY OUT THERE.
[4. CODE AMENDMENT NO. 20-04 GENERAL EXEMPTION LOCATION: City-wide REQUEST: The proposed code amendments consist of certain amendments to the Zoning section of the West Covina Municipal Code to modify development standards within the Residential-Agriculture (RA) and Single-Family Residential (R-1) zones.]
YEAH, THIS IS THE R R ONE R A CODE STANDARDS.THAT WAS INITIAL, THAT WAS BROUGHT BACK FROM THE PLANNING COMMISSION MEETING OF OCTOBER 24TH, 2021.
AT THAT TIME, THE PLANNING COMMISSION,
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THE, UH, STAFF PRESENTED THE PLANNING COMMISSION WITH PR WITH PROPOSED CHANGES TO THE, TO THE CITY'S MUNICIPAL CODE PERTAINING TO THE R ONE R STANDARDS AND STAFF RECEIVED AND DIRECTION FROM THE PLANNING COMMISSION AND THAT THE DIRECTION FROM THE PLANNING COMMISSION REFLECTS THE CHANGES TO THE DRAFT THAT REFLECTS THE DRAFT ORDINANCE PRESENTED THE, THIS LANGUAGE, UM, THIS REVISED LANGUAGE ON THE PROJECTOR.WE'LL, WE'LL REVISE A CODE WHERE GARAGES WILL NO LONGER BE COUNTED TOWARD THE MAXIMUM UNIT SIZE TO BE CONSISTENT WITH INTERESTS, INDUSTRY STANDARDS, STAFF ADDED A RECREATION ROOM TO THE LIST OF NON HABITABLE, ACCESSORY BUILDINGS, OR STRUCTURES THAT ARE ALLOWED IN THE CODE RECREATION ROOMS, IF A PROPERTY, UM, THIS LANGUAGE, UM, WE'LL CLARIFY THAT IF A PROPERTY OWNER IS THAT ADDING 300 SQUARE FEET TO THEIR HOUSE, THEY NEED TO HAVE A TWO CAR GARAGE AND DRIVEWAY TO FIT TWO VEHICLES.
THE DRAFT LANGUAGE ON THE PR, UM, PROJECTOR CLARIFIES THE MAXIMUM DRIVEWAY WITH CURRENTLY DRIVEWAY WITH IS TIED TO THE WIDTH OF THE GARAGE.
UH, IT CURRENTLY THERE IN THE ACCESSORY DWELLING UNIT ORDINANCE GARAGES ARE ALLOWED TO BE CONVERTED INTO AN ACCESSORY DWELLING UNIT.
SO IF THE GARAGE IS CONVERTED INTO AN ACCESSORY DWELLING UNIT, THE CURRENT CODE DOES, UM, DOES NOT TECHNICALLY ALLOW DRIVE WAYS BECAUSE IT DOES NOT LEAD TO A COVERED PARKING SPACE.
SO THIS CODE AMENDMENT WILL ALLOW AT LEAST A 20 FOOT MAXIMUM WITH, UM, DRIVEWAY ON A LOT, EVEN IF IT DOESN'T HAVE A GARAGE ON THE PROPERTY.
THE COACHINGS ON THE PROJECT ON, UP ON THE PROJECTOR, THE INTENT OF IS TO REDUCE THE SIDE AND REAR SETBACK REQUIREMENTS FOR NON HABITABLE STRUCTURES TO FOUR FEET.
THIS WAS DISCUSSED IN THE LAST CITY PLANNING COMMISSION MEETING.
JOANNE, CAN YOU GO BACK TO THE OTHER ONE FIRST? THANK YOU.
THE SECTIONS WHEN THE CHANGES PROPOSED FOR SECTION 26 DASH 4 0 6, UM, IT'S JUST A REFORMAT OF THE CURRENT SECTION WITH CROSS-REFERENCING TO THE SPECIAL REQUIREMENTS FOR YARD AND SETBACK SECTION.
THE PROPOSED LANGUAGE ALLOWS FOR INCREASE HEIGHT OF THE TASK GARAGES AND STORAGE SHEDS WITHIN REQUIRED REAR YARD.
TWO 20 INCREASED AT 20 FEET WITH A DIRECTOR'S REVIEW AND A DETERMINATION DETERMINATION THAT THE DESIGN IS COMPATIBLE WITH THE STRUCTURES ON THE PROPERTY AND IT AT LEAST 15 FEET FROM ANY PERMITTED STRUCTURE AND INDOOR SWIMMING POOL ON THE NEIGHBORING PROPERTY.
THIS ALSO REFORMATTED THIS SECTION AND CROSS-REFERENCED THE SPECIAL REQUIREMENTS FOR GARDEN SETBACK SECTION.
THERE ARE ALSO OTHER CHANGES THAT WERE MINOR AND ALSO INVOLVE CROSS REFERENCING CERTAIN SECTIONS.
SO THAT ONE WHO WAS READING THE CODE CAN EASILY IDENTIFY THAT THE AREAS THAT WOULD BE APPLICABLE AND SO THAT NOTHING IS LOST IN TRANSLATION.
ALSO SECTIONS IDENTIFYING AND SIGNIFICANT AND DATES WERE DELETED.
UM, TO NAME A FEW, THERE ARE CERTAIN SECTIONS IN THE CODE THAT REFERENCES A DATE, UM, FOR, FOR LEGAL NONCONFORMING STRUCTURES, UM, IN THE CITY'S EYES, ALL EXISTING STRUCTURES CONSTRUCTED WITH PERMITS ARE CONSIDERED LEGAL NONCONFORMING.
IF IT DOES NOT COMPLY WITH OTHER, WITH CURRENT CODE STANDARDS, NO MATTER WHEN IT WAS CONSTRUCTED.
SO IF IT WAS CONSTRUCTED, UM, LAST WEEK AND THE CODE CHANGES, UM, AND IT WAS CONSTRUCTED WITH PERMITS, IT WOULD, IT
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WOULD BE CALLED CONSIDERED LEGAL NONCONFORMING, AND THE CITY'S NOT GOING TO REQUIRE PROPERTY OWNERS TO REMOVE LEGAL, NONCONFORMING, UM, SITUATIONS OR STRUCTURES ON THE PROPERTY WITH THE STAFF IS RECOMMENDING THE PLANNING COMMISSION APPROVED RESOLUTION NUMBER 21 DASH 6 1 0 0, RECOMMENDING THAT THE CITY COUNCIL ADOPT THE ATTACHED ORDINANCE.UM, CAN YOU REPEAT THE 300 SQUARE FOOT? I SAW IT SOMEWHERE, BUT I JUST DON'T SEE IT HERE ANYMORE.
UM, WHERE WAS THAT? IT'S SECTION IS THE SECOND SECTION DOWN FROM THE DISCUSSION WHERE IT SAYS 26 DASH 4 0 2, A B N OFF STREET PARKING AND GARAGE REQUIREMENTS.
SO IS IT THIS SECTION UP ON THE PROJECTOR OR UP ON, I'M NOT CLEAR WHERE THIS PARTICULAR ONE IS IT BECAUSE WAIT, WE BE PROBABLY TALK ABOUT THIS ONE.
IS THAT THE ONE THAT LET'S SAY IF SOMEONE WANTS TO ADD AN ADDITIONAL 300 SQUARE PHOTO, SO THEN THEY HAVE TO HAVE, OR, UH, THE CURRENT CODE REQUIRES EVERY SINGLE FAMILY RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY IN THE CITY, UM, HAVE A TWO CAR GARAGE PLUS TWO UNCOVERED PARKING SPACES.
SO WHAT'S HAPPENING RIGHT NOW IS A GARAGE IS CONVERTED INTO TIMES CONVERTED INTO EDU'S.
SO IF, IF A GARAGE HAS CONVERTED INTO AN 80, THEN THEY WOULD NO LONGER HAVE THAT TWO COVERED PARKING SPACES.
SO THIS WOULD, THIS CODE SECTION WOULD BASICALLY SAY THAT IF THEY WERE GOING TO ADD, UM, MORE THAN 300 SQUARE FEET TO THEIR EXISTING HOUSE, THEN THEY WOULD HAVE TO HAVE A TWO CAR GARAGE.
IS THIS, UM, I'M JUST, I GUESS I'M CONCERNED, ARE WE TRYING TO ENCOURAGE DEVELOPMENT NOW, HOUSING, OUR TRYING TO LIMIT BECAUSE BY IF THEY WERE TO CONVERT THE GARAGE TO AN ADU, NOW THAT THEY WILL DO THEY WANT TO DO AN ENLARGEMENT TO THE MAIN HOUSE THEY'RE BEING LOCKED IN THE FACT THAT THEY HAVE TO PROVIDE GARAGE.
AND SO AS A CITY, ARE WE TRYING TO ENCOURAGE DEVELOPMENT OF HOUSING OR ARE WE TRYING TO PREVENT MORE DEVELOPMENT? UM, JUST, UM, OKAY.
SO THIS, THE CITY IS TRYING TO RECOVER, WAIT, HOLD ON MUCH LOCAL CONTROL AS WE CAN PERTAINING TO 80 YEARS, I'M JUST GOING TO THROW IN MY 2 CENTS ON THIS.
I DON'T REALLY SEE THIS AS, AS SOMETHING THAT IS A PARTICULARLY, UM, ROW OR AGAINST DEVELOPMENT.
I THINK THIS IS REALLY JUST A CON UH, A CONSIDERATION THAT SHOULD RIGHTFULLY BE IN PLACE DUE TO THE FACT THAT, UH, WHEN YOU HAVE SOMEONE DEVELOP A, A GARAGE INTO AN ADU, IT TAKES AWAY PARKING AND THEN WILL NECESSARILY HAVE AN IMPACT ON OUR STREETS TO THE, TO THE EXTENT THAT WE DON'T HAVE THE ABILITY TO REQUIRE ADDITIONAL PARKING WHEN AN ADU OR A JUNIOR ATU IS PUT IN PLACE.
THIS IS BASICALLY THE ONLY PROPHYLACTIC MEANS THAT WE HAVE TO PUT IN PLACE.
I THINK THAT'S REALLY WHAT THIS IS.
I DON'T THINK THAT THIS IS SOMETHING THAT IS ROLE WE'RE ANTI-DEVELOPMENT.
I THINK THIS IS A NEUTRAL THING THAT SPECIFICALLY DEALS WITH ARGUING CONSIDERATIONS THAT THE STATE LEGISLATURE DOESN'T CARE ABOUT.
SO WE'RE IMPROVING, WE'RE CREATING, UH, UH, WE'RE CREATING OFF STREET PARKING SPECIFICALLY FOR RESIDENTIAL PROPERTIES, AND THIS IS ONE OF THE WAYS OF CREATING THAT.
SO WE'RE GOING TO MAKE, WE'RE SORT OF TECHNICALLY, WE'RE MAKING SURE THERE'S PARKING SPOTS.
BECAUSE I THINK IT'S KIND OF LIKE A MESS.
WE'RE NOT MAKING SURE BECAUSE WE SURE.
I, AND I THINK THAT THAT'S, THAT MAY BE THE, THE THING THAT'S, THAT'S LOST ON EVERYONE HERE THAT THE, THE ADU PROCESS IS BY, RIGHT? AND SO SOMEONE CONVERTS THEIR GARAGE.
ONE CAN'T HAVE NOTHING TO SAY ABOUT THAT.
WE CAN'T REGRET OFF STREET PARKING.
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ANYTHING THERE REALLY, ALL THIS COMES DOWN TO ANY EVENT THAT SOMEONE DECIDES THAT THEY WANT TO IMPROVE THEIR HOUSE OR DO A REMODEL IN WHICH THEY ADD ON AN ADDITIONAL 300 SQUARE FEET.THEY'RE GOING TO BE REQUIRED TO PUT BACK WHAT WAS LOST BY PUTTING IN AN ACCESSORY DWELLING UNIT, WHICH TOOK AWAY THE, UH, THE GARAGE AT THAT POINT IN TIME.
AND IT'S SORT OF A LIMITED SCOPE THING BECAUSE WE'RE UNFORTUNATELY AT A DISADVANTAGE, BECAUSE AGAIN, STATE LEGISLATURE HAS PASSED A LAW THAT THEY REALLY DON'T CONSIDER THE DOWNSTREAM CONSEQUENCES OF NOT, NOT HAVING PARKING REQUIREMENTS.
THAT'S REALLY WHAT THIS COMES DOWN TO.
THERE'S, THERE'S NOTHING REALLY ALL THAT COMPLICATED ABOUT IT, OTHER THAN WE'RE BASICALLY IN THE SITUATION WHERE WE HAVE TO EFFECTIVELY PLAY CATCH UP, UH, BASED UPON THE LIMITATIONS THAT, THAT, THAT ARE, THAT ARE PUT INTO PLACE WITH US, SUCH THAT, YOU KNOW, THERE'S W THERE'S LESS PARKING.
I MEAN, FOR EXAMPLE, WALNUT CREEK PARKWAY IS A STREET THAT ALREADY HAS A MAJOR PARKING PROBLEM IN OUR CITY.
PARTICULARLY BETWEEN AZUSA AND OLAND.
AND I'LL TELL YOU IF W IF WE SAW A SITUATION WHERE PEOPLE WERE CONVERTING THEIR ONE CAR GARAGES OR, OR, OR, OR TWO CAR GARAGES, WHICH ARE, UM, W W WHICH ARE ONE, ONE CAR WIDE INTO ACCESSORY DWELLING UNITS ON TOP OF THESE HOUSES, WHICH ARE NOT ON PARTICULARLY LARGE LOTS, YOU'RE GOING TO HAVE AN EVEN BIGGER PARKING PROBLEM THERE THAN YOU ALREADY DO, BECAUSE THERE'S NO PLACE TO PARK.
AND SO, IN EFFECT, IF WE, IF SOMEBODY SAYS, OKAY, I'M GOING TO ADD 300 SQUARE FEET TO THAT PARTICULAR PROPERTY AT THAT POINT IN TIME, WE'RE GOING TO SAY, NO, NO, NO, NO, NO.
YOU'RE NOT GOING TO DO THAT UNLESS YOU GET IT PUT BACK IN A, UH, A GARAGE.
BUT BY THAT POINT, IT IS NOT POSSIBLE ANYMORE.
ESPECIALLY IN THE AREA OF WHERE YOU MENTIONED IT IS THOSE SLOTS OF VERY, VERY SMALL, VERY, VERY TIGHT, AND THEY BARELY CAN FIT A GARAGE IN A HOUSE BY THE TIME THAT THEY CONVERTED THEIR GARAGE.
AND THEY DON'T HAVE A FORESIGHT TO SEE THAT IN THE FUTURE.
IF I'M GOING TO ADD AN ADDITIONAL 300 SQUARE PHOTOS, THOUGH, THEN THEY'RE LACKING A BEING, NOT WHAT PREVENTING THE HOMEOWNERS, NOT BEING ABLE TO DEVELOP OR CREATE MORE LIVABLE SPACE.
SO I GUESS, A BETTER, A BETTER, UM, I, I DO ACKNOWLEDGE, I DO ACKNOWLEDGE THE FACT THAT WE DO HAVE A PARKING ISSUES, BUT THERE MUST BE A BETTER WAY IN TERMS OF PLANNING PURPOSE FOR THE CITY OF WEST COVINA AND FOR THE RESIDENT.
HOW CAN WE HAVE BOTH ENCOURAGED FOR THE RESIDENTS TO ACTUALLY HAVE THE ABILITY TO KEEP THE GARAGE, BUT ALSO DEVELOP THE ADU THAT'S REQUIRED BY STATE? SO THESE ARE SOMETHING THAT THESE ARE SOMETHING THAT WE NEED TO, WE CAN'T JUST FIND WAYS TO BLOCK EVERY WAY WE NEED TO BE ABLE TO THINK A LITTLE BIT FURTHER AHEAD OF TIME AND SAY, HEY, LOOK, WHAT CAN WE COME UP WITH AND COME UP WITH SOME CREATIVE IDEAS, HOW WE CAN HELP OUR RESIDENT TO BE ABLE TO GET THEIR CAR OFF THE STREET, AND ALSO ALLOWING THEM, BECAUSE WE'RE LIMITING, KEEP LIMITING THE STAFF.
IT'S VERY DIFFICULT TO KEEP LIMITING THE RESIDENTS, TO BE ABLE TO PRODUCE WHETHER THESE LITTLE ADS OR WHETHER THESE, UM, EXPANSIONS OR ENLARGEMENT OR ADDITION FAST, WHAT WERE THE MAJORITY OF WHAT RESIDENTS ANYWHERE CAN DO.
THEY CAN, IF THEY CAN RUN OFF AND BUILD A BRAND NEW HOUSE, THEY WOULD TRUST ME.
BUT THE FACT IS LAND IS VERY EXPENSIVE DEVELOPMENT HOME.
AND THAT'S WHY WE'RE ADDING THESE LITTLE UNITS.
DO I AGREE? WE SHOULD ADD THESE LITTLE UNITS.
I, I PERSONALLY DON'T NEED IT, BUT THERE ARE A LOT OF PEOPLE THAT NEED THESE LITTLE UNITS.
SO AS A CITY AND AS PLANNING COMMISSIONS THAT WERE IN CHARGE OF PLANNING FOR THE FUTURE OF OUR CITY, WE SHOULD ALL GET TOGETHER AND HAVE A, HAVE A, HAVE A DISCUSSIONS HOW WE CAN HELP RESIDENTS TO HAVE THESE LITTLE EDU'S AND TO HAVE A GARAGE, AND TO BE ABLE TO EXPAND THE RIGHTFUL WAY AND SARAH FINDING WAYS TO KEEP BLOCKING, BLOCKING.
NEXT THING, YOU KNOW, THE STATE IS COMING DOWN WITHOUT THOUGHT, WELL, THIS LITTLE LAW THAT THE STATE HAS ALREADY TAKEN IT OUT OF OUR HANDS, THAT SPEAKS
AND SOME OF THOSE PEOPLE WANT TO CONVERT THOSE INTO EDU'S, WHICH THEY COULD, BUT THEY'RE ALLOWING CARS TO PILE UP AND BLOCK ENTRANCES
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AND EXITS EXITS TO APARTMENTS, WHICH ENDANGERS THE LIVES OF THE RESIDENTS WHO LIVE IN THOSE APARTMENTS.BUT, SO MY QUESTION IS, IS, SHOULD IT BE A COLD AMENDMENT CHANGE LIKE THAT? OR SHOULD IT BE MORE OF A FIRE FIRE KODESH, A FIRE CODE? I THINK THERE IS A CATCH 22 WITH THIS LAW AND THIS ADU REQUIREMENTS.
AND I THINK AS A CITY AND AS A PLANET, ALL FIVE OF US CAN COME UP WITH SOME TYPE OF IDEAS TO HELP A RESIDENT, INSTEAD OF FINDING DIFFERENT WAYS TO BLOCK.
IT WAS A ONE FOR ONE, FOR EXAMPLE, THE HEIGHTS OF IDU IS 15.
SO IF THEY, IF SOMEONE WANTS TO BUILD A GARAGE ON THE BOTTOM AND BUILT A UNIT ON TOP, THEY CANNOT DO THAT.
SO IN A WAY, WE'RE NOT, THIS IS STATE LAW, THE FOOT, THE 16 FEET IS SICK LAW, BUT AS A, AS A CITY, CAN WE COME UP WITH SOMETHING CREATIVE THAT, HEY, LOOK, IF YOU GAVE US TWO CAR GARAGE OR THREE CAR GARAGE, WHATEVER GARAGE THAT WE WANT OR COME UP WITH, THEN MAYBE PERHAPS WE CAN GIVE THE HEIGHTS INCREASE.
THAT'S THE ONLY WAY THAT WE CAN ACTUALLY HAVE THE GARAGES IN A CERTAIN AREA OF CITY THAT REALLY NEEDS THE GARAGE TO PARK THEIR CAR.
IF YOU ALLOWED THEM TO PARK, UH, OR BUILD ON TOP OF THE GARAGE, ALL THEY WOULD DO IS HAVE TWO 80 YEARS.
ONE ON TOP OF WHEN I'M BOTTOM.
THE CITY CAN HAVE A COMMENT SAYING THAT THE GARAGE IS, NEEDS TO BE GARAGE.
THEY HAVE THE ADU ALREADY AS IT IS THAT, CAN I, CAN I JUST INTERJECT? IS THERE ANY WAY WE CAN GET TO THE PUBLIC HEARING AND OPEN AND CLOSE THAT, AND THEN IF YOU GUYS WANT TO CONTINUE THIS DEBATE ON THINGS THAT DO NOT SEEM TO BE IN LINE WITH, UH, WITH WHAT THIS CODE AMENDMENT PROCEDURE IS IN LINE WITH GO RIGHT AHEAD.
BEAUTIFUL HOUSE FOR OPEN HOUSE RIGHT NOW.
I GUESS YOU CAN CLOSE THOSE, THOSE, THE HEARING.
DO YOU WANT TO CONTINUE? UM, I'M IN A MOTION TO APPROVE, UH, GIVE ME ONE SECOND.
THE, UH, UH, CODE AMENDMENT NUMBER 20 DASH ZERO FOUR, UM, AS PRESENTED I'LL SECOND.
IT, I ACTUALLY LIKE TO MAKE A MOTION TO CONTINUE THIS AND HAVE A BETTER DISCUSSIONS OF HOW WE CAN HANDLE OUR CITIES.
UM, 80 USE SITUATIONS AND PARKING SITUATIONS COME UP WITH SOME TYPE OR HABIT DISCUSSIONS.
I BELIEVE WE HAVE A MOTION TO SECOND.
UM, SO COMMISSIONER WILLIAMS. I, UH, COMMISSIONER GUTIERREZ, UH, COMMISSIONER HANG COMMISSIONER HANG.
IT WAS A MOTION TO APPROVE CODE AMENDMENT NUMBER 20 DASH FOUR, RESOLUTION 21 DASH 61.
WAS THERE A SECOND TO COMMISSIONER HANGS MOTION? IT WAS THE SECOND DAY.
IS THERE A SECOND TO COMMISSIONER HANGS MOTION TO CONTINUE THE ITEM THERE A SECOND FOR THAT MOTION.
THE MOTION MADE BY LEWIS SECONDED BY GUTIERREZ TO APPROVE CODE AMENDMENT.
NUMBER THREE, RECOMMENDATION OF RESOLUTION 21 6 1 0 0 COMMISSIONER, UH, WILLIAMS. AYE, COMMISSIONER GUTIERREZ, COMMISSIONER HANG, UH, VICE CHAIR, LEWIS AND CHAIR BISSERA AYE.
FOUR ONE, UH, FINAL ACTION ON THIS MATTER WILL BE TAKEN AT A PUBLIC HEARING BEFORE THE CITY COUNCIL ON THE DATE TO BE DETERMINED,
[5. DEVELOPMENT CODE UPDATE SUBCOMMITTEE MEMBER SELECTION]
THE NUMBER FIVE NON-HEARING ITEMS I WOULD LIKE TO AMEND MY APPOINTMENT TO COMMISSIONER RYAN GUTIERREZ,[03:50:01]
COMMISSIONER GUTIERREZ HAD EXPRESSED AN INTEREST ON THE SUBCOMMITTEE AND, AND BEEN ABLE TO CONFIRM HIS AVAILABILITY TO BE A MEMBER AS SUCH.I WOULD LIKE TO APPOINT COMMISSIONER GUTIERREZ AND MYSELF AS THE SUB COMMITTEE OR TO THE SUBCOMMITTEE.
WOULD ANY OF THE COMMISSIONERS LIKE TO, OH, I'M SORRY.
COMMISSION REPORTS, COMMENTS AND MISCELLANEOUS.
UH, WOULD ANY OF THE COMMISSIONERS LIKE TO REPORT OR COMMENT ON AN ITEM,
[6. COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT DIRECTOR'S REPORT:]
COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT DIRECTOR'S REPORT, UH, PAULINE, ARE THERE ANY ITEMS TO REPORT TO THE COMMISSION? UM, YES.MADAM CHAIR, UM, THE CITY OF WEST COVINA WILL BE HOLDING IT'S STATE OF THE CITY AND EMPLOYEE RECOGNITION DINNER ON OCTOBER 14TH AT THE SPORTSPLEX TICKETS ARE NOW ON SALE.
UM, YOU WERE ALL INVITED TO ATTEND, UM, THE COMMUNITY AT LARGE, AS WELL AS INVITED TO ATTEND.
WE ALSO HAVE A CAREER RESOURCE FAIR AT THE SENIOR CENTER WITH ASSEMBLY MEMBER, UM, RUBIO, UM, FROM, UH, I BELIEVE NINE TO TWO.
AND THEN WE HAVE A OPEN HOUSE AT FIRE STATION TWO, UM, FROM 10 TO TWO AS WELL.
UM, AND EVERYONE'S WELCOME TO ATTEND BOTH THE FENCE PAULINA I'D LIKE TO AMEND ON ITEM NUMBER THREE.
THE ACTION IS FINAL UNLESS APPEALED WITHIN 10 DAYS TO THE CITY COUNCIL.
[7. CITY COUNCIL ACTION:]
SORRY.UM, THE CITY COUNCIL DID INTRODUCE THE FIRST READING OF THE CODE AMENDMENT IN ZONE CHANGE FOR THE, UM, OVERLAY ZONE ON THE, UH, AT THE, UH, SEPTEMBER 21ST CITY COUNCIL MEETING.
UM, AND THEN THE SECOND HEARING WILL BE ON, UM, THE NEXT, UH, THE OCTOBER 5TH CITY COUNCIL MEETING, SINCE THERE'S NO FURTHER BUSINESS CONSIDER THIS MEETING IS ADJOURNED AT 10 56.